Julen Lopetegui Quotes

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.

I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

Those who have achieved success in football have a degree of responsibility to be open and honest about our 'calling,' our passion.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

I'm just trying to do my job and my part to make this a team that people respect.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

Being the main guy for three or four years, I understood what it took to be the leader.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

I'm aware that I'm now a role model for younger players. I bring more maturity to practice - it's more of a work environment to me, where I consciously work to get better each day.

I'm very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.

I've been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.

I think naturally I've been kind of a lead-by-doing guy. Just showing up to work every day. You never ask teammates something you wouldn't do yourself.