Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

When I played, I always wanted to attack. This is my philosophy.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

Every time you can score more goals you should try to do so.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

Well, it's about getting points. And there are different ways of getting points. Whether you're offensively good, capable of scoring enough goals to win enough games, or resilient enough not to lose too many.

I've always played hockey to win, not to get shutouts.

I am convinced that when the team plays well, the attackers will have chances to score - and that's why I will have the chance to score.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

It's always like that with Italian teams, they're competitive, they know what they want and they know how to get it.

We never played for 1-0 and then defend. We always went for the second goal and the third.

I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything like that. It was just - growing up, that's kind of all I knew - was attack, attack, attack.

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

I think my role on a team is I love to put the puck in the back of the net. If that opportunity presents itself, and it happens for me, I get really excited.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.