Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Rafael Benitez - Page 2

If the fans are behind your players, it's much better.

I have won the Champions League, won the FIFA Club World Cup, the FA Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Spanish league twice, nine trophies, all the trophies you can win at club level.

When you are playing well, the players play with more confidence, sometimes without changing anything.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

I will do my job: I will try to win every game until the last minute. That's it.

The family is something you are always missing, but it has to be like this. It is not easy for any manager to be with your family, in your house, and working at your nearest club. So you have to travel.

When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.

People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura,and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.

You are under pressure when you play to avoid relegation.

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it's the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It's positive and unique when you have that.

Everyone has to have the same targets, and the fans are very important for every team, for the motivation of the players. It's the same in every club.

There are massive clubs with massive amounts of money, and Liverpool were always a little bit behind. But if you create a good team, a good atmosphere, and work hard, you can get there. You can win trophies.

With Tenerife, we had to fight in the most difficult second division in Spain with Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, and Real Betis, and we were promoted. I know you have to fight until the last day. We were promoted in the last game.

The fans say you can do this and that, but you have to analyse the potential of the team with your staff. Will it be enough to be at the top until the end of the season? You never know.

I am a Madrid fan.

When you are winning and go to finals, you want to win the finals.

There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.

I have been doing this for a long ,and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

As a manager, I have to keep calm.

Whenever people say things about me, it always comes back to Liverpool - but I cannot just become 'the former manager.' I am a professional football manager.

I was a PE teacher, and when you teach, you can say, 'You have to do this.' It's an order. That's one way. Or you can say, 'Listen, we have these problems, so give me the solution,' and they have to think about it. Or you can say, 'Here are three options - which one is best?'

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

I don't only watch football. I like films.

Wenger is a great manager, a great person, someone who knows the league here in England.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

I am a professional that likes to concentrate on my job during the games.

Sometimes you have to praise players.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

Always you will miss something if you have to go, because you are trying to improve players who are people. You talk with them and work with them every day. You will miss them.

I don't always sleep for too long, but I sleep well. Sometimes when you have a doubt about team selection, you talk to your pillow, but in the morning, you have an idea.

I go to the training ground early in the morning, between 7:30 A.M. and 8:30 A.M. Not just me, my staff. Then, sometimes I leave at 8 P.M. or 6 P.M.

I come from a Napoli team who scored 104 goals. Do you think I'm going to be hyper-defensive with Real Madrid? A team that creates chances and is great in possession is not defensive.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

I don't read the press that much.

I was under pressure in my first season at Valencia, and we won the title. Two years later, I was under more pressure there, and we won the title and the UEFA Cup.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

I understand 100 per cent why someone would want to buy Newcastle United. It's very clear: it has the potential to be one of the top sides.

I like 'Only Fools and Horses' and 'Father Ted.'

When you have more money than anyone, and you can buy the players that you want, OK, you can buy the quality, and maybe you no longer mind about the other things.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

When you have a run of games where you keep winning and winning, you know it must end.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

We don't have any problems, apart from the problems we have.

The champions are the team with the most points...if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

When I was at Valencia my wife said that we would win the league. She was right and to mark the occasion she asked me for a new watch. I bought her the watch, but then she said that we would win the UEFA Cup and that when we did she wanted another watch. Now she says that we will win the Champions League and that she will want an even more expensive watch. My wife has a lot of confidence and a lot of watches.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

Winning trophies has made me put on weight