In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

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'.

Act as if there is no chance of failure.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.