Pep Guardiola Quotes

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

It's difficult to gel players.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

Every team knows its strength.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.

What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.