Mario Kempes Quotes

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I want to do the job successfully.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.

Real Madrid demands the maximum. You have to win and please.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

Football players win football games.

As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show people that you're there and you're ready to win.

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.