Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Pep Guardiola - Page 2

What I have to do to make sure I don't lose some games in a row; I don't know.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

I enjoy every day in Manchester. I am confident we can make a step forward to make people proud of us.

For my experience, my family. I will always be grateful for the people who brought me here.

That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

I want happiness for the players.

A perfectionist? That's part of my job.

What happens in the Premier League is that when they arrive in the area, they punish you.

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.

I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

Alexis Sanchez would fit in any team in the world.

I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.

I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

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.

I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don't believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.

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.

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. I'm loving Manchester City.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.

Maybe one day I will work in Italy. If they want me.

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

The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

I don't want players who don't want to stay.

At the end of the day, it's my players play against their players, and the end of the day, that's what's important.

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.

To score four times against an Italian team when you trail 2-0 is a big deal.

I want to win games; I don't want to lose games.

When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.

I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.

It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. It's already been a while now that he has been outstanding. He's more than decisive in every way. That he's capable of doing everything that he does at his age is something impressive, that doesn't make any sense.

Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him.

Lahm is a scandal. He is super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty.

I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful.

It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.

There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.

Iniesta doesn't dye his hair, he doesn't wear earrings and he hasn't got any tattoos. Maybe that makes him unattractive to the media but he is the best.

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.