Pep Guardiola Quotes
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You hear all these people saying, 'Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.' Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.
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You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.
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This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.
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People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
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I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don't believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.
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What happens in the Premier League is that when they arrive in the area, they punish you.
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People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.
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I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
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We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.
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In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
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Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.
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I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.
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Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
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If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.
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I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.
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It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. I'm loving Manchester City.
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People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
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I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.
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I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.
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Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.
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In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.' So, let's do it. We are going to try.
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I am so happy when I feel emotion about the way my team plays.
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There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.
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Alexis Sanchez would fit in any team in the world.