Tite Quotes

Tite

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 25, 1961

I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication... everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs.

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I do not demand miracles from anyone.

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I want to be the best version of me, I want to improve, to give opportunities through my work.

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When we move things from what it's important, we make mistakes.

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The collective strengthens the individual.

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Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.

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Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

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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.

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Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

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I don't mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

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In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.

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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.

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I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I would sit in front of the radio with my father, and we would listen to the magic of football. It was like the matches were a dramatic story being told to us. It was a kind of art, in my opinion. It was like a painting or a great novel.

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In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the '70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.

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A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

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Pele is incomparable.

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Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

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

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Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

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My thing is in the pitch, that's my concern.

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