Quique Setien

“It's true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that's nothing new.”

“I only guarantee one thing when I take over a new club: that we play good football.”

“If a player is receptive and really wants to learn and improve, you might be surprised what they are capable of doing.”

“If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was worth it.”

“I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.”

“I will try to avoid anything that distracts me from the job or takes away my energy.”

“I want my tombstone to say that I won the Champions League with Barca.”

“What hurts me, and always had done, is picking teams and having to leave players out.”

“When you don't win games everyone tries to stir the pot but this is the circus we're in.”

“Days before Barcelona called me, I was about to leave to coach in Egypt.”

“What I feel for the ball, what I enjoy, as a player and now as a coach, the satisfaction I feel when I see great players, is the same as in the school playground: seeing moves build, seeing understanding, passes flow, seeing it all fit together. That's what I admire and ultimately, that's what you learn at school.”

“Madrid's anarchy can make planning difficult: they're unpredictable. But if you can be defensively sound and use the ball well, making the most of the space they leave, you can do them damage.”

“I didn't think Barca could go for me, I have no honors, I don't have a great CV.”

“In moments of frustration one may not have refined comments.”

“The formation is important but not that important. The important thing is the concepts in each position on the pitch. That has to be integrated into the players' heads. The players will develop when they understand it.”

“I'm interested in the football; everything outside of that is something I can't control.”

“I have no problem with people expressing their opinion as long as it is with respect.”

“Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.”

“Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.”

“I am used to working with what I have.”