Pep Guardiola Quotes

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Pep Guardiola

Profession : Coach

Birth : January 18, 1971

Will I be a success? I don't know.

Pep Guardiola

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

Pep Guardiola

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

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In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

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The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

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Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

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Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.

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I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

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I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

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From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

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The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

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Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

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I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.

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I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

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Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.

Pep Guardiola

The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.

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All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.

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The fundamentals, what I want, which is to take the ball, try to play as offensive as possible and dominate the game through the ball, is the same. I grew up with that; I was a player with that idea, and I am a coach with that idea.

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I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

Pep Guardiola

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

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