Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.

You are not alone in your sorrow and suffering because the good Lord is suffering with you. He cannot see His children unhappy.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.