Marco van Basten
When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.Collection: Patience
Arsenal have the most amazing stadium, they have a style of play, they have a beautiful shirt - in every way I consider Arsenal as the ultimate football club.Collection: Amazing
Whatever the situation, winning is always the most important thing.
If you are not forced to change, then there are no reasons to change.
Sacchi was a good coach. He wanted to play pressure football. The good thing was that he created a good group with lots of discipline. Working together was the key. You had to do your work to help the team and that was all important.
I have worked with Johan Cruyff, with Rinus Michels, with Arrigo Sacchi and with Fabio Capello.
If you can score a lot of goals in Italy, you can do it in the Champions League as well.
Messi is the best player in the world. If he wins a World Cup, he will be the best player ever.
I played against Maradona and he was a great player like Messi too.
There was a moment in 1996 I had to say: 'I have to try to get healthy.' We made a decision to fuse my ankle. For a sportsman, and I was still only 32, that's the worst choice. But I had to stop the pain.
If you have 48 countries in a World Cup, we have more countries who have the joy of participating.
Cruyff was one of the best, he was my hero and my example. He was a star at the same time as George Best, fantastic to watch. I knew him later on, he became my trainer, my adviser, my team-mate, my opponent. It was easier for me to play with him than to speak to him.
Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.'
Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.
I do some business and work for television, talking about football.
Leonardo left Milan on bad terms, but I did not.
I'm not a good manager.
I can train players and talk about football. But losing as a manager was so painful, I couldn't live with it.
As a manager you have to be positive to your guys, as a father to his sons, and that was one thing I really didn't have.
Xavi has won the Champions League three times, the European Championship twice and the World Cup. He's a real football player, a man who focuses on his football, hard work and training instead of the glamour, and that is why he has stayed at such a high level for so long.
For quality and excitement the Champions League is better than the World Cup.
Sometimes you have an exceptional international team, such as Spain in 2010, but club football is better.
They are not the same - Xavi is more the man of passing and Iniesta can dribble more - but they have great vision, they are important to the defence and the attack.
Rooney is the man.
Am I too critical on Torres and Drogba because I used to be a striker myself? I don't think so.
Rooney has to remember he is an icon and an example to youth.
I like that about the English people. They are sharp.
I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.
If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.
I have a nice life.
I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.
It's not easy being the first man as a trainer.
I think the person I learnt the most from as a coach was Cruyff because he was always talking about tactics - how to play, where to play and when to play. I think that helps a lot of young players, which is good. He was the most important trainer for me.
We must keep looking for ways to improve the game.
It is hard to play 10 against 11, let alone with eight or nine.
Ronaldo is a great player. But those who claim that he is stronger than Messi do not understand football or are in bad faith.
All the pain I had, it was not worth it. My ankle created so many problems, it affected my day-to-day living. But at that time football was my whole life. Now I am older, I have had a life without football. You can still have a good life - there is more than football.
In football you need opponents, competition because if you are alone with two or three clubs controlling everything you don't have any competition.
I think it can be very interesting watching a game without offside.
We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.
Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that are not heavy enough for a red card.
When you get older and more open and more honest, it is easier to show yourself how you really are.
It is a contact sport. Being tough is also part of the game.
As a player, you play and you have much more influence. As a manager, you talk about the game all week with every player and all of a sudden when it starts, your influence is so small and it was very difficult for me to accept that.
Lewandowski reminds me a bit of me. I was a bit of a mix of him and Ronaldo. I also understood playing with the others and I could give assists.
As a coach, I felt I couldn't offer what I should offer. That made things too difficult for me. It was specifically my problem. I couldn't do it. I kept suffering from stress. I was the one who needed to take the decisions. Everybody's looking at you. 'What, when, who, how and where?'
My first dream as a young boy was to be a gymnast and my first memory of football is of watching Ajax win the European Cup in 1971. It was a time when a great philosophy was being developed at Ajax, making rounded players who were there as a complete team rather than as 11 individuals.
I think my gymnastic background helped a great deal with my agility when I took up football seriously.
I don't like friendly matches.
It was great that Cruyff believed in me so much when I was taken on at Ajax. As a coach, Cruyff also had a clear vision, which enabled him to create a better team.