Antonio Conte Quotes
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I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It's important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong - the right movement.
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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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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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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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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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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 a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.
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You don't create a big and strong team easily.
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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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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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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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It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.
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For me, to have my family with me is very important.
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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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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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I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
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Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.
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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 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 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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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?
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I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.
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To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.