Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Antonio Conte - Page 2

It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.

Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.

I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.

When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.

When I am not working, my family are the most important.

Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.

I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.

I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It's important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong - the right movement.

The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.

When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.

During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.

My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.

I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.

It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.

You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

It's important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals - these players are important.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.

It's important to win with style.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.

You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.

I don't want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.

I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.

I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.