I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.
He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.
If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.
I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.
At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true
I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.
This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.
Let slip the dogs of champions.
People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.
He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'
It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.
For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.
If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.
The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.
The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
Eleven against eleven they never beat us.
If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.
When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.
The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.
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