Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.
I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.
When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.
Winning all the time is not necessarily good.
When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at. " It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.
My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A. M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.
Alot of people think our lives are all about taking pictures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're taking pictures of you all the time.
What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?