Tactical Strategies Quotes

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

At the start of my two years at Juventus, I had big plans for the club, but it turned out that the Intertoto Cup was the only medal in my desk drawer when finally they told me to pack my bags. We started the first season really well, and Conte was so important for me.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

I don't see myself coaching because the intensity of that is massive, and the intensity as a manager, for example Arsene Wenger, is even more.

Chelsea is an ambitious club and it will always be possible that a coach and the players are competitive at the highest level.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.

In Europe we know that the great teams always improve and we will have to do battle with them.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

It's true that the training and mentality in Spain is totally different to how it is in France.