Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football.
Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don’t want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.
I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that’s the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.
It’s a pity we can’t play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game.
I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, ‘There goes Van Basten’s son.’ Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.
But the most important part of everything is to be happy.
You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.
Eleven against eleven they never beat us.
Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.
I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.
Maybe next season we can race.
Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.
Wenger has been Arsenal’s coach for 15 years but he hasn’t won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn’t won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool’s coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee’s dressing room I couldn’t believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn’t surprised.
Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.