Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Simeone

Geminis are aggressive, changeable, intense.

I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.

It's not enough to just have talent at Atletico Madrid. At other clubs it is, but we can't sign superstars and have to look for players with a good work ethic.

I'm very happy in charge at Atletico. The squad give me commitment, talent and style.

Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.

Motivation should come from within each player; if not, it's difficult to get results.

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

I'm a believer that emotions can move mountains, that spirit alone can trump budgets.

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.

From when I started to play with a ball I wanted to win everything.

With me, what you see is what you get.

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

Liga MX is a great environment, the fans are very enthusiastic.

We want to be the team that no one can stand to play.

For Altetico to keep wining we can only do one thing - work and fight.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it's not just any second, it's a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it's not. In an instant it's over - you won't have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.

I say what I feel.

Sometimes, there isn't respect for our ways, but you can't change people.

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

Catania was a real learning curve. I grew amid difficulties. In terms of courage and ideas, a lot about my Atleti comes from Italy.

Like I've always said, in football the most important thing is the quality of minutes not the quantity.

I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.

A coach I admire? Jurgen Klopp. No doubt.

When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

I like brave people.

As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

If there is one thing I am, it is very hard-headed. If I want something, I go after it - and I go after it ad nauseum.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.

Heart can cancel out budget.

When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don't understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.

I would never close the door on any job because I like to work, I like football.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

When we were children we played on the street - on tarmac and things like that.

Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.

Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

The first time I played England was at Wembley in 1991.

From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: 'What is the history behind this club?'

There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme - Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don't - because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.

I would never close the door on coaching in Mexico.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

It's difficult to get ready to face a player like Cristiano Ronaldo. He's a goal animal.

When there are changes there will always be people who like it and people who don't.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.

It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.

If I had to chose between Messi and Ronaldo, then most likely I would choose Messi.