I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
Players like Messi and Xavi are always hungry. Whatever the game or the competition - even if it is table-tennis - they want to win. We used to play two-touch football games after training and they would always be desperate to win. It taught you about life as well as football.
We are football players and we like to win games.
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Football players win football games.
I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.
Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.
You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.
If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.
I live in the moment. I try to win as many games as I can in any given year. That's what I've always tried to do. But I don't dwell on the past games. That doesn't help you win games now. If that helped win games now, I'd dwell on them.
Listen, I want to win football games; whatever's going to help us win.
Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games - players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.