When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

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'.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.

Wisdom is the principal thing

'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place?

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.