Unai Emery

“The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.”

“Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.”

“I was the coach in Valencia, and this was when Pochettino was finishing his playing career. And we met in Valencia watching the Chile training sessions. And a few months later, he took over as coach of Espanyol.”

“I speak to lots of coaches, but those are private conversations.”

“My first message is clear. Enjoy the challenges of each match.”

“A smile is better when you win.”

“I want to say thank you Arsene Wenger for your legacy. For all the coaches in the world, he is a reference. We learned, I learned from him all the things in football.”

“I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke, and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success. I'm excited about what we can do together, and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories.”

“I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.”

“If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.”

“I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.”

“It was very risky and quite courageous to write a book about winning when I was still to win my first title. But for me, the one who possesses a winning mentality isn't necessarily the one who wins in the end but the one who wants to win the most.”

“My first thing with every club I have worked in is to get a personal relationship with the players and then build a professional one.”

“In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.”

“I need to learn to smile more.”

“Defensive moments are for each and every player.”

“I live football as passion and emotion.”

“The Premier League is at the top, and everyone wants to be in the top leagues.”

“When we are thinking in an attacking moment, I want the goalkeeper thinking, for that, he is the first. The same when we are thinking defensively - I want our strikers to be thinking, 'We need to protect the goalkeepers.' I want those two moments to feel the same for all players.”

“For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.”