Ernesto Valverde Quotes

There are always new challenges in football. You just need to adapt; otherwise, you won't fit in. And if you don't fit in, then you will have to go somewhere else.

No matter where I bat I try to adapt to the situation.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

What position didn't I play last season?

I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.

I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Meet the challenges of the time.

I've always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don't change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.

It does not matter to me. I can play from the left, the right, or attack through the middle.

If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.

I'm open for whatever any team asks me to do.

I'm not too worried about points and all that stuff. It's about making the right play.

There's no doubt about it: I think that my versatility helps me.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

You want to score in every game and to fight hard.

You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I'd have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.

All I want to do is get on the pitch and perform, and hopefully, that will do the talking.

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.