Patrick Vieira Quotes

My value can only go higher if I can perform well in the Champions League.

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

You want our team to have the best chance to win.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

My job is to win the game each and every week and that's what I want to do, and that's all I'm worried about.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

Ultimately I want to win. That's my main focus as my rookie year.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

That's basically what you're going out trying to do every night - help the team win.

Chemistry is a very important element for any team that wants to be serious about winning.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

For me, I just try to figure out ways I can affect winning.