Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Tite

Having recognition is not a sin, growing up is no sin, be star is not a sin, have technical skills is not a sin. To evolve in what is wrong is also a process of maturing.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

Neymar, I'm not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch - his genius.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.

I've never had any problem with Neymar. It's so easy to work with him.

When we move things from what it's important, we make mistakes.

Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

In an individual sport you can always plan your ideal peak, but in a team sport the experience of playing in the qualifiers makes you stronger as a unit.

You don't pay for winning like that - whether it's the World Cup, whether it's the Brazilian national team. Paying the price with someone's health or rushing someone's recovery, we don't do that.

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

When you demand performance, players raise their game technically. But if you put all the emphasis on results, that brings their level down.

I respect opinions, I don't give opinions on them. I learnt to respect them. And I also have a very clear opinion on Rivaldo. He was a great player and the image that comes to me is of him controlling the ball on the chest and scoring in Barcelona. The most beautiful thing in this world. That's my opinion.

I do not even know the limit of Neymar. His technical and creative ability is impressive. When we release him in the last third of the field, he's lethal.

Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil.

I'm a coach who demands performance of the highest level. Maybe that's the fuel the national team needs to keep on developing.

When you have three different coaches in the same qualifying competition, there are bound to be things that don't work smoothly.

Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid. We must find a middle ground.

I have to know my limits.

Perhaps Argentina have been benefited by the talent of Messi.

I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.

Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

Pele is incomparable.

We are aware of the responsibility to win, but we have to take responsibility with joy.

There's no news on talking about Messi's talent.

To play here and win here in Uruguay is a very difficult thing. Here you have a really strong atmosphere, energy. You have to have your highest focus. You have physical, technical, tactical and mental aspects.

You don't cancel out Messi, no, you can slow his actions, but you cannot neutralise his actions.

We don't need referees in order to win the game; we just want it to be fair. You should look at all of the plays and then make a decision.

Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.

I want to evolve and keep evolving.

The Olympic Games provided players like Neymar, Marquinhos, Gabriel Jesus and Renato Augusto with some really valuable experience and ended up improving the performance of the Brazilian national team.

A team is strong because they have players who have different characteristics, but they are all important so sometimes the needs of the game impose themselves.

I just make sure to prepare myself for everything day-by-day.

I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.

Neymar has important and extraordinary records. And he also has a solidarity side that he will gradually show.

It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.

The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.

The collective strengthens the individual.

We must understand the fans, they want to see goals. If I was in their place I'd want the same. It's understandable.

We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.

I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I would sit in front of the radio with my father, and we would listen to the magic of football. It was like the matches were a dramatic story being told to us. It was a kind of art, in my opinion. It was like a painting or a great novel.

In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the '70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.

The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you're hyper, you try to slow it down; if you're a bit low, you try to hype it up.

All the players have this responsibility of playing for the collective and also being individuals with some specific characteristics.

The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.

Having been at big clubs, when you sometimes don't produce, then don't expect the fans to understand. They will boo.

I don't have to have opinion about everything. I don't want to be a showman, to be talking about everything.

When the national team plays there shouldn't be club games going on.

Coaches are always looking to evolve.

You have to create possibilities for the finish in the final third of the pitch, I'm not going to take that away from anybody.

I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never know.

When you are captain, how to project yourself.

I spoke with Zidane and he insisted that Casemiro is the player who gives Real Madrid balance. I decided to trust him and make him a starter.

My thing is in the pitch, that's my concern.

Alisson is an excellent goalkeeper.

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.

A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don't see that as a valid result. For me, there has to be another way.