I don't believe in projects of more than three years.

When you are 21 years old, and you work as a good professional, you must improve.

Playing every day with important players is good for a young player: you are always learning from experienced players.

You need the desire to demonstrate the way you can play, which team you are.

Lionel Messi is very difficult to contain.

I have enough problems trying to manage a team, without managing the FA.

I would be happy to go back to Spain at the right moment.

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.

If you do not know each player individually, one on one, it is impossible to form a team from 22 distinct personalities, different languages, different home countries, but with one common aim.

To be the coach of Real Madrid is an honour, and every coach has pride in that. However, one is also subjected to a wide range of critiques - some just, but others not. But when the criticism deteriorates into insults, which has happened many times, I don't appreciate that.

As for Kaka, he is a superstar... someone who can change the tempo of the game as well as the team.

It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.

Technical players make the game easy. They have a view of the pitch different from other players. They put the last pass for the strikers. They are the players that lose two or three balls in a year.

When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it's more than winning a title. It's more.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

Life is like a building: it is impossible for anyone to achieve anything without a strong foundation, and the family is the most important foundation you can have.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

When I live in a country, I always try to learn about the country - not just England, the U.K. as a whole - so I will stay here some days to do something different.

I learned English, French, Italian.

A lot of young players relax a bit when they reach the first-team, thinking they have reached the finish line, but really, it's just the beginning.

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

I always speak with all the players during the week before every game we play, because it's important for them to know what I think and for me to see how they are before the game.

If you look at the history of Manchester United, they are always a big side, so there is no time of underestimating them.