It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

We have short memories in football.

What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you're capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you're a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That's my objective in Tottenham.

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.