Antonio Conte Quotes
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Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.
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If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don't feel this pressure.
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If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.
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For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
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I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
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Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.
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Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.
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For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.
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When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
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When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.
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I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.
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For me, to have my family with me is very important.
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I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.
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I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.
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To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.
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When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.
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Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.
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You don't create a big and strong team easily.
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I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
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When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.
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I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
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All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.
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To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.
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To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?