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“It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.”
“Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.”
“Liga MX is a great environment, the fans are very enthusiastic.”
“As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.”
“Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme - Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don't - because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.”
“Each person can think what they want.”
“At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.”
“Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.”
“Football is about balance.”
“My ambition is to work to improve my players.”
“The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.”
“Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.”
“Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.”
“I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.”
“He's an animal, Diego Costa is an animal!”
“Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.”
“I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.”
“Like I've always said, in football the most important thing is the quality of minutes not the quantity.”
“Fans can't score a goal but they have energy.”
“Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.”