Having evolved into one of world's best football managers in recent years, Pep Guardiola has had a lot to say about Football and how the beautiful game should be played.
1."In football, the worst things
are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward."
2."If you train badly, you play
badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way."
3."I sit down and watch videos.
I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense
of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to
win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful."
4."I am not dealing with
footballers; I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing
and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them
see that without each other they are nothing."
5."It has been an honour to be
the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I
will see."
6."Lahm is a scandal. He is
super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside
or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional"
7."Out of everyone at Manchester
United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation.
I would have loved to play alongside him"
8."The beauty of sport is that
sometimes you laugh and sometimes you cry"
9."He is the f**king boss, the
f**king man. Off the pitch, he has won. He has won for the whole year"
10."If there isn't a sequence of 15
previous passes, a good transition between attack and defense is impossible.
Impossible"
11."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."
12."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."
13."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."
Pep on David Silva
14."My image of English football from the outside was
that maybe David Silva was going to falter at Man City. That was my first
impression. But I was happily, happily wrong.
15."Everybody
knows about his quality with the ball, but he's more than that. He's
incredible."
16. "When you compete with the past you are always going to lose, because memories are nicer than reality"