When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

Louis van Gaal has nothing more to learn.

When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.

Be proud of yourself when you do keep going!

I am good, but not an angel.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.