Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Quique Setien

I have this philosophy of play that I love and my teams play well.

Any footballer who understands space and time and positioning can become a better player because he knows how to receive the ball alone with time to play a pass or shoot.

I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.

Real Madrid are a team who are a little anarchic.

I never really understood the game until I saw Cruyff's Barcelona play. The first time that happened it opened up a new world to me. I began to understand that football was a collective thing, and that association between players meant you could keep the ball the whole game.

There is a great part of the professional world that I don't like.

Madrid's players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they're not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.

I told Cruyff I'd have given my little finger to have played for his team, but not just to play at Barcelona but for how they played, because I saw how the players enjoyed themselves.

If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was worth it.

Regarding the VAR, it is a tool that can undoubtedly make us better. You have to use it because it gives us a clearer view of reality when you have to make quick decisions.

I listen to everyone but I have my ideas... you know my ideas, my way of playing, and if I have to die by them I will.

I do not agree that the coach has to adapt to the players. There was a time when I thought it, but that was because I did not understand football.

More time and less pressure would be a lot better, that's true.

I don't have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.

I will try to avoid anything that distracts me from the job or takes away my energy.

Speak to me about football; the rest doesn't interest me. The rest doesn't help me in my job.

I am a person with clear convictions.

In moments of frustration one may not have refined comments.

Everything can happen in soccer. We have seen inexplicable things.

The formation is important but not that important. The important thing is the concepts in each position on the pitch. That has to be integrated into the players' heads. The players will develop when they understand it.

I love to watch and have great footballers and if I can watch Neymar every day, just imagine.

In these fixtures, the past is forgotten. What is rewarded is the present. This is a Clasico: two teams that will be at 100 percent regardless of the situation.

If you play badly and lose, you're left with nothing. If you lose but play well, you still have something. You have something to build on.

When I arrived at Lugo, the whole world told me you can't play that football in Segunda B. I said we could, and was there six years.

I'm a romantic, I like the football.

What I feel for the ball, what I enjoy, as a player and now as a coach, the satisfaction I feel when I see great players, is the same as in the school playground: seeing moves build, seeing understanding, passes flow, seeing it all fit together. That's what I admire and ultimately, that's what you learn at school.

I didn't think Barca could go for me, I have no honors, I don't have a great CV.

All I'm interested in is giving my players the tools they need to win.

I'm interested in the football; everything outside of that is something I can't control.

I have no problem with people expressing their opinion as long as it is with respect.

I'm not going to tell Messi how to live his life - or anyone else, for that matter.

I want my team to play well almost all of the time and have possession of the ball.

I listen to everyone but I am the first to defend what I believe.

It's true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that's nothing new.

I only guarantee one thing when I take over a new club: that we play good football.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

We all have to sacrifice a part of ourselves, including the players, for the good of the team.

I think the best way to victory is to play well.

Pressure is not imposed on me by the club, I impose it on myself.

You will see that I am a direct and sincere person, I don't beat around the bush and I will address something if I see it.

Of course I have dreamed about that - and about showing off the Champions League trophy to the cows back in Liencres.

There are many variables in each game that make each one different.

I take into account the importance and the hierarchy of each player, but in a club like Barca with so many players... I know that some are going to get angry because not all are fit and it is a decision that I must take responsibility for, and that is what I do.

I understand football through the ball. There are others who interpret the game without the ball.

There are coaches who put more or less players in front of the ball; when you put lots of players ahead of the ball, the risk is magnified. There are coaches that won't contemplate that. I respect that.

When I arrive at a club, I always look at it like I'm going to stay all my life. I couldn't work like I do otherwise.

When you don't win games everyone tries to stir the pot but this is the circus we're in.

Yesterday I was walking past cows in my village and today I am at Barca, coaching the best players in the world. This is the pinnacle for me.

I've come from the bottom, I've got used to working with what I have.

Of course I would like to coach Neymar one day.

Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.

I have seen some great players doing wonderful things, but being so decisive for so long over 12 or 14 years as a professional, I think no player, maybe only Pele in his time, has shown that level. He shows it in every game. I don't know how many hat-tricks he's had.

Madrid's anarchy can make planning difficult: they're unpredictable. But if you can be defensively sound and use the ball well, making the most of the space they leave, you can do them damage.

For many players the opportunity to be able to play with Messi represents a huge incentive.

I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.

I don't rule out 3-4-3 or other formations depending on the game.

I've watched Barcelona all my life.

I understand that it is very difficult for Barca and Madrid to win everything until the end.

I have always thought winning on its own is not enough. You have to have continuity in what you do. The things you do have to last.

I will always try to make my team play well because that way we are more likely to win.