The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

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'.

You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates, Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins.

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

There is a God. God exists.

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.