Pep Guardiola

Coach

1971-01-18

Quotes by Pep Guardiola

• You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.

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• Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

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• I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.

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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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• 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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• We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

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• I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

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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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• As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

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• People say, 'Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,' or, 'Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.' I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles... sorry, guys, it was good!

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• From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

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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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• People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

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• In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

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• I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

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