I love coaching and I love Barcelona.
— Ronald Koeman
Some players need pressure to get the best out of themselves.
I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.
I know what it is like when a player has big ambitions.
Becoming Netherlands coach could be a nice end to my career.
In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.
The best player to compare to Aguero is Romario.
Old Trafford is not really intimidating, no. I think the Man United fans are always behind the team and it's a fantastic place to play football.
We have to be confident. If we are not you can't win.
When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.
The Premier League is different. Sometimes the Bournemouth game can be more difficult than Liverpool or Chelsea.
I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.
I managed Zlatan when he was young and sometimes also difficult! But, okay, that is normal.
Great coaches can't win always in life.
If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.
Everything would have been different for Barcelona without Messi.
Daley Blind, Georginio Wijnaldum and Kevin Strootman too. They are examples of how you should behave as a top player.
My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.
There are so many other examples in the Premier League of players who are the best in their country and make a move because they are really ready for a level higher. If they come to the English top flight, it turns out they need a period to adjust in terms of pace, aggressiveness and physicality, especially as a midfielder.
If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.
The Europa League is a different calibre than the Champions League.
If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.
That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.
I think it is always good to know what is happening around the club.
I hate players who always play the ball back to the goalkeeper.
Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.
Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.
I've coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.
In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was offered to me.
It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
The entire world knows what I have with Barcelona and what Barcelona have with Ronald Koeman, so if I could become Barcelona coach one day, I would be delighted.
I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.
I'd prefer to have 10 players scoring 10-15 goals than one scoring 25.
I accept that everyone is entitled to his opinion and as a coach, I don't run away from criticism.
Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.
Within 24 hours of my departure from Everton, I had already received the first offer. Then they kept coming, but I keep it all away from me.
Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.
I played with Romario. Sometimes you think he's sleeping, then in one split second he's scoring. It's a big quality. That means a lot of concentration for defenders. He's always fast, always on the line of sight. That's his best quality.
I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.
Full compliments to everybody in Southampton because the support of the fans was amazing and the spirit and the belief of the players, it's very enjoyable for the manager.
When you have Van Gaal in charge, it is a fact that there is fear in his team. The players have a fear for mister Van Gaal. That is not always good.
I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.
One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.
I like to be in Europe - it's important for our experience. It's good for the club, the players and the fans.
What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.
We are football players and we like to win games.
Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.
You need luck, you need your key players, you need to be in the best shape, you need all of that to be champions.
