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As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.
You always need to have the highest respect for your opponents. If you see them fighting, you know you have to give something extra.
Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.
He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.
I like to exchange ideas because we all want to win. If a footballer doesn't agree, then you try and have a chat to work things out.
January is an odd month for everyone because of the transfer market, while it can happen during a season to have a momentary wobble.
The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left West Ham in great shape.
I told players that when we score a goal, the bench lives through the same emotions and we celebrate with them, with the same desire.
If you are a dictator of choices, players won't be able to explore their possibilities to the full. You have to be able to free them.
I watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, 'Is he really watching this?'
I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.
When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don't understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.
Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.
When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.
I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.
It's very important for the mentality of the players to always try to be a winner, to try to win as many titles and games as you can.
You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people off trying again.
You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.
Torres is a fantastic striker, and I think it was difficult for Liverpool to sell him because he's such an important player for them.
I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him.
I strongly believe that'players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.
I'm enriched by all my experiences, good and bad, but I've always tried to remain committed in my life as a coach and always positive.
When a special moment happens, I really enjoy it, but I'm over it quite quickly. I remember it, yes, but I want to chase the next one.
I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.
Ronaldinho is another special player, probably amongst the most talented players I have worked with. At Barcelona, he was outstanding.
Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.
I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
If you win the Champions League, you become known across the globe, but the World Cup has always thrown up new stars and developments.
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 you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.
The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.
The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.
I have always had sympathy for Atletico Madrid because, among other things, I have friends there, and my father always liked Atletico.
When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the others.
If the owner wants to support the team, that's okay. If the owner can be on the pitch and score a couple of goals, it would be better!
Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks your heart, it really does.
No one hates someone spitting at someone more than I do and it is frowned upon in our country. It is a horrible, horrible thing to do.
I hope Darren Moore is a good manager, when he was my captain at Portsmouth, he could lead battleships out of water, he was that good.
When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well, kills you.
I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!
I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.
Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.
Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.
There are coaches with habits you don't like, and you tell yourself, 'I don't want to be like that.' But there's no one way to success.
George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
Bayern have always been quite successful in European competition, but the competition is not a wish concert: you always have to be fit.
To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.