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If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

PSG's project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don't dream bigger - you are bigger!

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.

I applaud anyone who comes to a football game, given the finances - it's not an easy thing to do.

Whether it's at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'

It is important for us to push into the box - not play around it like some sort of handball team.

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

We know that if someone is in a better position than you to score, you have to give him the ball.

It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

When you haven't played for more than six months, scoring is the ultimate pleasure. It's ecstasy.

Hunting is part of a cycle of life that repeats. Life. Death. Life. Death. Death is part of life.

I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.

I've come through it and seen people in football that are sharks. They are ones to stay away from.

Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

Without Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, we would discuss Robben more often and with more appreciation.

I have great respect for the Premier League, but why leave Milan? I've got everything I want here.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

Sometimes you've just got to hold your hands up and say you've been beaten by a quality free-kick.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps.

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

Football's about winning and I'm a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

Any great club needs the mentality to go on and achieve things - it is what clubs like United have.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club which I gave my life to as a footballer.

Football has changed. There are no more Zvonimir Bobans or individuals who win games by themselves.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

People probably don't realise, but you often train harder when you're injured than when you're fit.

I've played with great players and worked with great managers; I've learned a lot from all of them.

I just want to start doing normal things again which I'm missing. Going for a run, playing football.

Different managers play different systems, and you've got to be able to play in different positions.

David Brooks - every time I see him, I like him. He breaks lines, runs beyond, and I like him a lot.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.

I have always pushed myself. I have never settled for anything less than the best that I could give.

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