“I am a Special One.”

“We have top players and, sorry if I'm arrogant, we have a top manager.”

“'Nobody' in this football world is perfect,….. i am ‘nobody’.”

“I believe in freedom of speech: you make a speech and I'll give you your freedom.”

“Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.”

“Pressure? There is no pressure. Bird Flu is pressure.(The Press Laugh) No, you laugh, but I am being serious. I am more worried about the swan then I am about Football.”

“If I wanted to have an easy job… I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.”.

“If I made a mistake then I apologise. I am happy that I'm not going to jail because of that.”

“If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!”

“Mr Roth has two ways out, apologise or it goes to court”

“Ricardo Carvalho seems to have problems understanding things, maybe he should have an IQ test, or go to a mental hospital or something,”

“It's just a haircut.”