"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."

"Make your plans to fit the circumstances."

"A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."

“I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.”

"When an Italian says it's pasta I check under the sauce to make sure. They are innovators of the smokescreen."

"David Beckham is Britain’s finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn’t contemplate."

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."