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

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.

I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.



When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.