A player you can buy in 24 hours, believe me. That's not a problem

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.

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.

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

Curiosity is the main energy...

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.