120 result(s) for Pep Guardiola Quotes.
"I will love Barcelona my whole life, but from a distance."
"You could spend hours discussing why a particular manager is successful, but what you cannot debate is that they win. And Pep wins!"
"If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way."
"I think Johan Cruyff painted the chapel, and Barcelona coaches since merely restore or improve it."
"I am going to Manchester with a job to do, to get the club to do the best I can."
"It's more important to have fun than to win."
"The best way to win is to adapt your players and your system to the strengths and weaknesses of opponents."
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"We have played very well, but when you analyse the result, it's got to be a failure."
"The soccer gods must be Crazy! The ball goes in off the post and in. If it hits the post and goes out, it’s a draw - it’s ridiculous."
"You have to feel it; this game is passion, passion, passion. It is no sense playing football without joy. It's no sense."
"Sometimes you don't win, but you learn. Especially when you don't win. When you win, you don't always learn, but when you don't win, you learn."
"We have to absorb their strengths, and I have to focus on their weaknesses."
"I'm not a guy who thinks I have written your books or wisdom because of success. You are wisest when you have doubts."
"When you take retirement, you recognize acceptance is part of life. So the important is what you do."
"When you play against teams who want to control the small spaces, it’s difficult, especially when they are fresh and they know what they can do."
"If it was easy, it would not be fun. It's incredible fighting against teams that they should not be fighting."
"Living without football for me is not living. It’s not very easy when you have lived all your life to live without it."
"You can lose, but as long as you've played well, that’s all that matters."
"Football is a game of mistakes and the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins."
"Being back in Manchester, I wanted to do very well for them."
"The best way to defend is to control the ball."
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"It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball."
"Perfection doesn't exist. I'm not perfect, and my players are not either."
"You always have to demand more from yourself. You know when you're not good enough."
"The coach has a strong philosophy and a clear idea of how to play football."
"I will never park the bus, I will park the plane."
"Tiki-taka is not about the passing. It's about the movement."
"I think it's better to win 5-4 than 1-0."
"I love it when people are sceptical. I do everything for them to be wrong."
"I will play my way even if it means we lose."
"When you win without playing well, it's a good three points but you don't celebrate."
"You can't win or achieve success without dedication and hard work."
"My advice for Sebastian Kehl: If you've got the ball, you've got to shoot. If you don't have a gun, use your foot."
"I learned a lot just watching Cruyff. And the best way to learn is not to talk but to watch and watch and watch."
"I am more proud in the little details than in the big achievements."
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"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
"Victories are created in the heart first."
"I've always said we had plenty of money to buy good players."
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art."
"My advice for Sebastian Kehl is to keep.coming, keep fighting, keep working hard, and never complain."
"The ball is the most important thing, the most beautiful thing. Everyone thinks they own it, but the ball belongs to the game."
"I will never park the bus. I will never play for a 0-0. That is not normal."
"Perfection never exists, but with hard work, we can achieve it."
"I will be training on my last day in this job. I will never be sitting at home waiting for the big day."
"I love the beauty of football, and the beauty is linked with freedom."
"I learned a lot in Barcelona, it was a special period and I have experienced and learned from other coaches."
"In football, there is no better play than one of the young players seeing how all the big stars play every day."
"I will never forget my time in Barcelona. Because I think the way we play there was quite special."
"Classic derby is like a final. This is not cliché; it’s fact."
"Every day is important. Every day we live our life we shall take it one step closer to being the best."
"Before you play any game, make sure you have a perfect plan and execute it well."
"We can’t be too arrogant. We can’t play the way we want to play. We can play the way we want to play, but we can lose the game."
"I try to respect the players. That is the only thing I ask in return."
"I always remember when I was a little boy and my grandfather told me the most important thing in life: 'If you want to be happy, you have to learn to suffer.'"
"I have never, not once, said this is the way! There are many ways to play in football. I’m still learning."
"When you win the ball back quickly, you become a more dangerous team."
"The biggest joke is I played with Johan Cruyff. We can’t compare because I won one Champions League which for our history is so important. He won three."
"Football is straightforward, it is simple. You have to run more than the opponent to win."
"I will do whatever it takes to win games. I’m a bit paranoid about losing games."
"Tactical fouls are obligatory in football. They are very necessary. My teams control the games very well and know when we have to make fouls."
"I think Barcelona and Bayern Munich are the best clubs in the last decade, the two best clubs. That's why this game is so special."
"I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong."
"The best way to defend is to attack."
"I will be at Manchester for the next three seasons, maybe more. I will not be at another club. I like to be at one place for a long time."
"You have to win games, playing well is not enough."
"I did not see the red card but everyone told me that it was correct. Ederson was so brave to save the kick, believe me, the goalkeeper is stronger than the people think."
"If the opponent team is good, they will block you. The important thing is the way we find the spaces, and we have to do that sooner, later, or whatever. We have to be there."
"It's not easy to win, it's not easy to have another record here, but time will break it. Of course, we think about winning the next game. That is going to happen but they are good."
"João Cancelo is the best full-back in the world right now. I think he is playing at a fantastic level."
"I would prefer to lose games but ensure we have a good performance all the time, that is more important than winning games. But we have struggled."
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
"You have to respect your opponents; that is what Barcelona taught me and my challenge as a manager is to come back to that."
"I'm not going to watch after thirteen minutes if I'm surprised somebody did that. I'm not searching for excuses. I've always thought the best tactics is to play good."
"Don't spend your time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"The best advice I can give is to focus on being better than you were yesterday."
"Footballing angels come from above. They are the talent that cannot be coached."
"Every game is a final, we have to concentrate and be ready."
"I played for Barcelona but in my own style, not like ex-Barça player Johan Cruyff. I was happy with my own style."
"Champions don't do extraordinary things, they do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, they are too fast for the opponent."
"Our job is to make sure we get better every day and don't worry about winning too much."
"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."
"You have to win games and deserve to win games. Sometimes, you win games you don't deserve. That is part of our job."
"It's impossible for a player to play 12 months at the highest level. 11 months maybe, but not 12."
"I will not change because I couldn't change at Bayern Munich, where I won nineteen titles."
"I have many doubts. But that is my job - create doubts and then push the players to find answers."
"Passing the ball to put the opposition's ball under pressure is important. Passing for passing's sake is just for the circus."
"I will never violate the principle that I learned with Johan Cruyff: play well."
"If everyone is fit, I will do my best to field the team that will win the game."
"I feel the pressure every day. That is the only way at a big club because you know you have to win."
"In football, we always have to improve. All of us can be better. All of us can improve."
"The people want to win. You have to win. Sometimes that is unfair, but I have to live with that."
"A coach is always alone, surrounded by his players and the journalists who want him to do something they could never do themselves."
"The self-belief of the players is most important. My style does not matter."
"I want my team to be fluid, full of initiative, and objective. We have to be a genuine team at all times."
"In football and in life, you have to go forward every day. Stay focused on the next challenge. The past is the past."
"Titles are important, but consistency in our performances is the ultimate goal."
"I am not a player; I want absolutely no role on the field. I want zero importance."
"You need a bit of luck, but you can't depend on luck."
"My team must have the capacity to suffer. Suffering means moving forward."
"It is important to be humble and always remember where you came from."
"The ball is the best tool to regain the ball."
"Always have the ball and you won't be hit."
"I will still be in charge of setting the team's style of play and strategy."
"I am a coach that always believes in the possession of the ball and the talented players."
"I will always review the comments from my players and staff."
"I hate all the people who have no passion for playing."
"Day by day, I try to get better and better."
"I get used to winning because it’s the only thing I like."
"Without the ball, we are nothing."
"The best place is when the ball is in the air."
"I want my players to be happy and enjoy themselves."
"I am not a coach who wants his team to be depending on the Coach."
"My tactics intend to help the team and not me."
"I am who I am. Even if the results are bad, I need to be myself."
"I don't know if I am the best coach in the world, but I try to be as better as possible."
"If the players are satisfied, I have done my job perfectly."
"Talking about the referee, I can’t say too much. It’s me, definitely fine."
"I love when my players want to do something, to try something, to score a goal."
"The context, concept, the full picture, must be achieved by the players."
"I don’t like that my players play with so much pressure. They need to feel free to give their best."
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