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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.
The high demands on teams in national leagues and of course the Champions League - it's too much.
There are things you can learn about certain players while watching them in action in a friendly.
I don't agree with people saying that I am immune to advice or cannot admit when I make a mistake.
I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.
The English clubs Arsenal and Manchester United focus on continuity with the same coaches for years.
If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)
Every national side plays according to their characteristics and the kind of entertainment they like.
When a man crosses his legs and the trouser leg rides up to show the hairy shins, it offends my eyes.
When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football
We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.
I am not interested in the Italian national team. I prefer to have a new experience, outside of Italy.
To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.
Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.
The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.
In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
One can not win titles with result-orientated football anymore and this has been clear to me since 2008.
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.
I don't think we should compare club teams with international teams because they are different cups of tea.
I want to establish an error culture in friendlies. We can make mistakes, learn from them and correct them.
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
I am coach of the Germany national team and there are not many jobs in the world which are better than this.
If you have a good product, like football, you should also think about limiting it to keep the quality high.
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
I never had any problems with the players. I would say that my English is better than Gary Lineker's Spanish.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
I tell my team: if we win the ball, I want to see the ball in the goal in eight seconds. That's my philosophy.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.