"I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league."

"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day."

"Nedved did not deserve the award from France Football. Someone else should have won it, someone who entertains. I did not win it, but I don't put myself down, I charge myself more."

"It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays."

"You can occupy a cathedral and you will have upset Catholics, a fringe of approving dissidents, and indulgent left wing, the secular parties (secretly) happy. You can occupy a party's headquarters, and other parties, with or without a show of solidarity, will think it serves them right. But if a football stadium is occupied the disclaiming of responsibility will be total: Church, Left, Right, State, Judiciary, Divorce League, anarchist unions, all will send the criminals to the pillory."

"WOW, you have many imported cars here!"

"International football is the continuation of war by other means."

"Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football."

"If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target."

"There will have to be a bubonic plague for me to pick Di Canio."

"We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs."

"He will be called Ronald, because we like going to McDonald's."

"Sometimes in football you have to score goals."

"Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me."

"I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George Ndah had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing."

"I'm not 30 yet."

He'll turn 30 in 2006, September 29th. He signed with Chelsea in June 2006.

"You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey."

"Djimi Traore had to adapt to the English game and he did that by going out on loan to Lens last season."

"I couldn't settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country."

"Terry Venables has literally had his legs cut off from underneath him three times while he's been manager."