Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Opinions are based on experiences and experience is always connected with emotions. Anything linked with emotions is always biased.

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.