Pep Guardiola Quotes

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

We have to talk about the players we have.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

Being a soccer coach is just like being a general who has the responsibility of guiding his troops into battle. If a coach acts too emotionally on the bench, his players cannot focus on their game on the field.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

The most important thing is that you find a way to bring your thoughts into the hearts of the players. The tactical details are important because they can make a big difference.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

The most important thing for me is to value the players and try to improve them individually in order to improve the team.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.