Zico Quotes

I love coaches that think more about attacking than defending. As a football fan, I think that's wonderful.

United are about attacking football, and everything else has to takes its place behind that.

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

Attacking football is what I want to watch as a manager; it's what I want from my teams. It's easier to be destructive and get people behind the ball than to be constructive and creative.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

My philosophy is always to play for a win.

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

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

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

If you play an intense way, an aggressive way, we are good, we can score, we can create chances.

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

Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.

My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.

I like to have an attacking style on both ends.

It doesn't matter about the other team, when we have the ball and push hard, we can score goals. It is up to us to start the games with that desire, that motivation, and then we can get good results.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

It comes to the point where, if a midrange shot is there, I'm going to take it. If I'm open, I have to shoot that shot. That's a great shot for the team and myself.

You can't play to not lose.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.