“He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.”

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Often, you are forced to keep things simpl

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‘will’ and ‘want’ in the right way.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I’m really a normal football manager.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‘Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.’ I said that because we all cried for a week.

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.