If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.