The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

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'.

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.

All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

Big dreams turn into big things.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.