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You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.
I feel Bolton played a cup game today, they were one week late.
When you are a player, you think, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you are a manager, you think 'You! You! You!'
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?
José Antonio Reyes (2007)
When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
On Arsenal's famous back four (1997)
You forget what you wrote last September, October, November. You have a little bit of Alzheimer's.
If happiness is liking the life one lives, I can say I have been happy, and still am.
I liked the pitch, I liked the referee, I did not like Paul Scholes' tackles.
I could not leave this team at this stage of their development.
Joint Interview with The Times and Daily Mail (2009)
When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.
Arsenal (1996)
As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
On Ryan Giggs (2009)
We do not buy superstars. We make them.
Arsenal (1996)
We were considering him (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.
About Francis Jeffers (2001)
The speed at which we moved the ball in small spaces and our quality was superb. We played the ball through needles and it was very difficult for Aston Villa.
Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don’t know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don’t fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it’s not acceptable.
If I go into a season and I say, ‘For fuck’s sake, if we don’t win anything, they will all leave,’ I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.
Arsenal (1996)
Politically, I am for efficiency. Economically first.
Joint Interview with The Times and Daily Mail (2009)
The penalty decision was Old Traffordish.
I told you last week that the race was not over when the bookmakers stopped betting. Surprise, surprise, they have started taking money again.