Manager

I'd like to help the professional game to get it more exciting, more spectacular, more honest also.

We must keep looking for ways to improve the game.

I hope to be able to give my contribution to ensure that football remains the number one sport in the world.

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

When you get older and more open and more honest, it is easier to show yourself how you really are.

Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.

In sport it's all about winning, not how you win.

I played against Maradona and he was a great player like Messi too.

We have to be careful with time-wasting, the behaviour of the players. There are a lot now who are complaining during the game. We have to think about only the captain able to talk to the referee, not everybody, because we're losing a lot of time.

When you accept the captaincy, you accept the responsibilities that come with it.

Leonardo left Milan on bad terms, but I did not.

Shootouts are spectacular for the viewers and they are interesting for the players.

I want a healthy atmosphere around my team, not problems.

As a player, you play and you have much more influence. As a manager, you talk about the game all week with every player and all of a sudden when it starts, your influence is so small and it was very difficult for me to accept that.

It is hard to play 10 against 11, let alone with eight or nine.

In England there's a lot of money to create a great team like Barcelona.

Chelsea have become a big club and have massive financial resources.

I feel very honoured that I've been chosen as the best player for 1992 by national coaches with so much football knowhow.

Arsenal are a really big club.

When you feel good and the ball comes just a bit behind you, then you have the option to hold it and lay it back, but you can also do a bicycle kick - that was one of my qualities.