Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Pep Guardiola
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish coach Pep Guardiola.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.
The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.
Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.
Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.
I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.
I am so happy when I feel emotion about the way my team plays.
The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.
I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.
Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.
When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.
All the managers in the world are here to win games.
You hear all these people saying, 'Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.' Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.
When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.
We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.
People say, 'Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,' or, 'Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.' I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles... sorry, guys, it was good!
I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.
The Premier League is so difficult.
It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.
I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
Barcelona are special in the way they play. They're a machine.
People want to be entertained. They don't want to be cheated.
Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.
You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.
People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.' So, let's do it. We are going to try.
The reason we are here is thinking, 'What can we do to make this club a better club?' I don't want the guys to think about what the club can do for them.
Manchester City has a really good academy, and they're winning titles at all ages.
I want to play the football I feel.
I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
I have to understand the rules here in England.
Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.
I don't think in the big clubs in Europe you can find three strikers with an average age of 20.
People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
I would like to involve and love to work with young players.
We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.
All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
I have a lot of respect for the careers of the players. They are with us, they are with me, and I treat them like professionals.
This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.
I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.
We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.
People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.
If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.
Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.
We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.
There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.
We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.
I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.
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