Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Tite - Page 2

The players are the essence of the game. It is their creativity, the technical capacity of the player - the players have to be free to explore their individual creativity in the last third of the field, the team able to attack with six players, without concern for the defence.

I want to do my best in my daily job.

There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.

Winning or losing is part of the game.

It's one thing to throw Rodrygo into a system that's already structured, like Real's. It's another thing to put him in a team that is being reassembled, even if he was doing the same job in the same position.

If Brazil depends only on Neymar there will be a problem with Brazil, not with Neymar.

After I was invited to take over the Selecao, one of the first things I did was to call Marcelo and Thiago Silva. I wanted to get a feel for the players and we did not mention what had gone on in the past, that is behind us.

As time goes by, people grow and mature.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

Neymar is irreplaceable. Douglas Costa cannot replace him. He will play like Douglas Costa.

Neymar reassures you, because he brings unpredictability to your game. Because he will offer you an individual or collective solution that others cannot, and with him, the potential of a team is not the same, because he will sparkle.

I want to be the best version of me, I want to improve, to give opportunities through my work.

Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.

I would go to a team where I always felt happy - as a person, as a human being and as a family, because there I will be professionally better.

Allan is good in transition, going box to box, leading counter attacks and breaks. He's mobile and brings protection defensively.

My job is to prepare the squad.

Whether we are winning, losing or drawing, we have to be ready to adapt and not sink into a comfort zone.

I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.

The coach is a human being and does not demand miracles from human beings. He has the humility to understand that there are other people with different ideas to his own, but he does not have to use those words.

I would like to live in the country that wins less, but has more stability. Brazilian coaches remain, on average, in a job for three months.

The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.

I'm of the school of thought that it is all about pass and move, give and go, playing in triangles, interplay and creativity in the final third.

Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga's squad.

A team has to be prepared for the various situations in the game.

I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication... everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs.

We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.

Coutinho, Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar, Douglas Costa, Taison... they think fast and execute fast. The final third of the pitch requires that.

The message to all Brazilians is that talent alone does not win the World Cup, it's about working hard.

I make mistakes and I will continue to do so.

Brazil needs the individual creativity of Neymar, Philippe Coutinho, Douglas Costa. But it needs the collective creativity that sometimes people don't pay attention to.

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

I demand Casemiro play the same role he plays at his club, Real Madrid.

Coaches are overvalued.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

I don't mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

I do not demand miracles from anyone.

In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.

All of us are human beings and we evolve.

Ancelotti's teams are more balanced. It's a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also his discreet profile. I am also like that.