Words matter. These are the best Unai Emery Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was a second-division B player, and I’ve had to work very hard. I tell the players, ‘The moment we stop working hard on this, as soon as we stop dedicating hours to this, we’ll fall.’
I need to continue reading books, and I like to learn about different people in the world, different people with success in and outside of football.
Arsenal is known and loved throughout the world for its style of play, its commitment to young players, the fantastic stadium, the way the club is run.
Wherever I’ve been, I’ve tried to soak up the essence of the club, the town, and to transmit that to the players.
My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win.
My first message is clear. Enjoy the challenges of each match.
My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.
There’s a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.
The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It’s not harmony. It’s when players improve and grow.
I live football as passion and emotion.
Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.
You need confidence to play under pressure.
I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.
I respect a lot the players: their hair and their hair colour.
I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the sky, to feel the atmosphere growing.
I know my ambition and my passion and to know how I want to grow up with Arsenal.
Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.
I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.
In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.
The Premier League is at the top, and everyone wants to be in the top leagues.
Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It’s intense and very demanding.
When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.
When I’m asked to define football, I always talk about emotions, the heart, love. It’s something you feel deep down inside when you enter a stadium, raise your eyes, and look at the stands, the fans coming in.
If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don’t want to be like that.
Every coach wants to win, but it’s not easy to do that.
The Premier League is very difficult.
PSG signed me for my CV, for what I’ve achieved in the Europa League, how I’ve grown as a manager, and how I’ve made players grow. I’m essentially here because I have a winning record.
I speak to lots of coaches, but those are private conversations.
My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you’ve been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.
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 respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It’s difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.
When we are thinking in an attacking moment, I want the goalkeeper thinking, for that, he is the first. The same when we are thinking defensively – I want our strikers to be thinking, ‘We need to protect the goalkeepers.’ I want those two moments to feel the same for all players.
A smile is better when you win.
I’m not the kind of coach who says, ‘Let’s do a few piggy-in-the-middle exercises and go home for lunch.’
I know how you can feel when you are playing under pressure.
