Manager

I think it can be very interesting watching a game without offside.

A top-class striker normally plays up on his toes, so he can sprint or go for every ball that falls in his direction.

Scoring can be simply a matter of confidence. Sometimes it happens easily.

There's a big difference between being a footballer and being a coach.

They are not the same - Xavi is more the man of passing and Iniesta can dribble more - but they have great vision, they are important to the defence and the attack.

As a coach, I felt I couldn't offer what I should offer. That made things too difficult for me. It was specifically my problem. I couldn't do it. I kept suffering from stress. I was the one who needed to take the decisions. Everybody's looking at you. 'What, when, who, how and where?'

We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.

When I was growing up, we didn't qualify for the 1982 and 1986 World Cup and the 1984 Euros. And then suddenly we won in 1988. It goes up and down. We are a small country.

Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.'

We have to ensure that the product called football is always getting better.

Sometimes you have an exceptional international team, such as Spain in 2010, but club football is better.

It's not easy being the first man as a trainer.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

Louis van Gaal is a big manager, very experienced.

I'm not a good manager.

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

English football is very strong physically, but Spanish football is more technical.

Football is spectacular and it has to stay spectacular in every sense.

I tend not to pay too much attention to the person marking me.