Tite

“You don't pay for winning like that - whether it's the World Cup, whether it's the Brazilian national team. Paying the price with someone's health or rushing someone's recovery, we don't do that.”

“My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.”

“Neymar is irreplaceable. Douglas Costa cannot replace him. He will play like Douglas Costa.”

“You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.”

“Alisson is an excellent goalkeeper.”

“Coaches are overvalued.”

“Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.”

“Neymar, I'm not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch - his genius.”

“I'm a coach who demands performance of the highest level. Maybe that's the fuel the national team needs to keep on developing.”

“Winning or losing is part of the game.”

“Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.”

“Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.”

“The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.”

“I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.”

“The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you're hyper, you try to slow it down; if you're a bit low, you try to hype it up.”

“I don't have to have opinion about everything. I don't want to be a showman, to be talking about everything.”

“Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.”

“You don't cancel out Messi, no, you can slow his actions, but you cannot neutralise his actions.”

“You have to create possibilities for the finish in the final third of the pitch, I'm not going to take that away from anybody.”

“There's no news on talking about Messi's talent.”