Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Simeone - Page 2

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

In fact, a coach is primarily a trainer, not only in tactics but also in emotional matters.

Griezmann is an extraordinary player who adapts to all the needs of the team.

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

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

I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.

Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players.

Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

Football is wonderful because everyone can have an opinion and make judgements about what they think and see.

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.

VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.

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.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

I will never coach Real Madrid.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

Strikers are streaky creatures.

I have to continue to be very demanding of myself in order to evolve.

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

The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.

In La Liga you are awarded for consistency.

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

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Each person can think what they want.

At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.

Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win.

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

Those who manage to keep the offensive and defensive balance are more successful. We search for balance in order to keep a stable level, which is the most difficult thing to do.

There is no such thing as revenge in football, or in life for that matter, just new opportunities.

Fans can't score a goal but they have energy.

Finding myself in a final with Atletico makes me happy. Why? Because I know the feelings of all the people at the club - because I know how the players feel. They need to see their team as champions, so we have more fans every day.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

I am very respectful and always have been.

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

Football is about balance.

Winning is always beautiful.

Diego Costa always gives us physical and moral strength. He is a very important player for the character he transmits to the team, and his potential as a football player.

Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.

You have to live in the present.

Every footballer has their own identity. A Uruguayan player is different to a Spanish player. A Portuguese player may be similar to a Spanish one, but not the same - and so on.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.

Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

Messi alone is more dangerous than Real Madrid's attacking trio Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale.