You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.
A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.
With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.
Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
But the most important part of everything is to be happy.
One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.
The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.
Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.
Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.
If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.
To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.
I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.
We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
