As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.
It’s like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn’t come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.
A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
I would be much more annoyed if we hadn’t won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
You cannot say that you are happy when you don’t win.
If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.
Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.
If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you’ll have major problems.
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.