Diego Simeone Quotes

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Diego Simeone

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 28, 1970

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

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Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

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From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: 'What is the history behind this club?'

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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.

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When there are changes there will always be people who like it and people who don't.

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From when I started to play with a ball I wanted to win everything.

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I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

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It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

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For Altetico to keep wining we can only do one thing - work and fight.

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There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

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It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

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Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

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I say what I feel.

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What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.

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He who brings a style to a club that can't carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.

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There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

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He's an animal, Diego Costa is an animal!

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I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

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In La Liga you are awarded for consistency.

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I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.

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