Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.
At Osasuna I had a difficult experience because of the relegation battle but I always had a place in the team. I played well all season.
To win Ligue 1, you have to win each weekend. Every game is important.
I want to win trophies in the summer and not accolades in the winter.
You see how can you help your team, help yourself improve, and that's what I try to figure out throughout the season.
I don't think any guy goes into a season worrying about the next season.
The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.
I don't talk about what happened after one game or the other. We look at a season as a whole picture.
I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
When I look at a season, and it's all said and done, and the thing I look for is, first off, did my team win?
If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It's like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.
I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.
There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.
I've learned that the first half of the season is always very important.
Nobody wins the league in December. We have to go game by game.
I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.
We want to be strong and we want to be in a position to maximise the potential of the players in every game because it's a long season with 46 league games.
In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.
Every season, I want to be the best I can to be Africa's best player. I will do the best I can.
The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.
Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it's strictly football until the season finishes.
I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.
