Sven-Goran Eriksson
Maybe I trust people too much.Collection: Trust
You know I never hate anyone in my life. I don't think I have many enemies but I hate Samir Khan because you can't treat people like he has done.
Probably I would have got more money if I'd stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not. I took it because it's the biggest football job in the world, the finest job you can have. I enjoyed it every day.
China is beautiful.
I have two great children, even if they don't live with me.
Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.
Premier League is one thing. World Cup is totally different.
You don't give Capello advice. Capello's a better talker than listener.
David Beckham, for me, every time he came to England camps he was an extremely professional football player.
Didier Drogba is one of the best strikers in the world and he has showed that for many years now in the Premier League.
The Philippines is unfortunately not a football country - basketball is more popular.
If you travel around the world with David Beckham it's total chaos everywhere you go.
I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.
My private life was not very private in England.
Paul Scholes was at home on a cold February day away to Newcastle.
I have remained a Lazio fan and that was the strongest team I ever coached.
As a football man, I always want the best team.
By April 1998, the fortunes of Lazio were on the rise as they won their first trophy in 24 years. Meanwhile, my salary of around £400,000 basically tripled overnight when TV companies started paying for rights to broadcast games.
Personally, I've never liked confrontation.
No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.
I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico - 'the legend.'
I met Ulrika Jonsson on December 8, 2001, at some party hosted by the Daily Express, or maybe it was the Daily Star. The FA wanted me to travel around to various newspapers to be courteous and meet the editors. I visited the News Of The World too, and met a woman with big, red hair. I didn't memorise her name.
Sir Alex Ferguson was a genuinely nice man. We met many times and even had dinner together on a few occasions. But woe to the person who threatened or bothered Manchester United in any way. Then Ferguson would not spare his venom. I know, because he often aimed that venom at me.
I had a lot of respect for Ferguson. How could you not? He had built so many great teams throughout the years and I appreciated that his teams always tried to play attacking, positive football.
The first time I met Faria Alam was at the Football Association offices in London.
I didn't care: if I liked a woman and wanted to meet her, why shouldn't I be able to?
The truth is that I never cared about money. Not one bit.
I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every manager in the world, then they would like to do it as well.
I know Mourinho very well. He has a very strong mentality and is very peculiar man.
If you are the coach of Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Real Madrid, the chances to win something are huge. When you go to the Premier League, you have six, seven, eight teams who are fighting to win.
It is more difficult for any coach to work in the Premier League than any other league. You can lose or win against any team.
Football is beautiful and cruel.
Ranieri won the Premier League and no one would've expected that.
David Beckham deserves all the respect you can give to him.
Shanghai is a beautiful city, with theatres, shopping malls and restaurants that can rival anything in London.
My role as Manchester City manager was different to being manager of clubs in other countries. You share responsibility more in other European countries. You have the last word, though, in who to buy and who plays and things like that.
When I was at Shanghai SIPG, I had the Brazilian player Hulk, who had joined for over £50 million from Zenit St Petersburg. He had no problems with life in China - his only problem was that he got injured on his debut and was out for two months after that. But I never heard him complain about life in China at all - everything else was good.
I think if you want be a big team and stay a big team, it costs money. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter.
Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you don't have money to buy important players.
If you're manager, you're always responsible for the good times and the bad times. Every time you don't win a game you think if you could have done it another way.
I would certainly never walk past a player in the corridor and not speak. Why should I do that? They have to play for you so of course I would speak to them. If you want them to do everything they can for you, then you have to treat them with respect.
Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.
Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.
Over time I realised that the most important thing is not the system but the players you have. Then you make a system for them.
My private life, I prefer to have that private.
If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.
There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players.
I think, that it's sort of a dream, for many coaches to have a long contract with African countries. The problem in Africa, they do the qualifiers with some coaches, and when the World Cup comes, they change to have bigger names. And then, they recruit a coach for two, three months and when the World Cup finish, they send him back.
Sooner or later, an African team will win the World Cup.
Sometimes I thought that maybe it would have been better to stay in Italy, to stay at Lazio.