Top 44 Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot – maybe too much – in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.

First, as an owner of the club, you must choose a style of football. After that, you must find the managers that will work with the young players in your team in that style. After that, you must put a manager in the squad with the same mentality.

What I don’t want to be is the most important person of the club. If we win a game, it was the players who played very well.

I’ve changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

It’s very difficult to have the same motivation in the season after you’ve won two trophies.

As a manager, I won eight trophies in Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.

I enjoy working, and I enjoy working every day – and it is for that reason that I don’t so much like the idea of working with an international squad. To have every day on the pitch is important to me.

Some big teams prefer to be very strong defensively and have two, three, four counter-attacking players.

It is impossible for you to be remembered as a great team if you do not win the Champions League.

In the Premier League, you can’t play against anyone if you don’t play at a high pace.

Any coach who’s managed a big club in Argentina can manage anywhere.

What I want is to recover the ball as near to the other box as we can, and when we have the ball, play.

I am sure that the important managers always want to work here in the Premier League.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it’s more than winning a title. It’s more.

I’ve always said that I love the Spanish league.

There can be very cheap players that play very well, and maybe, expensive players, they don’t do so well.

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

For me, Ramos is a full-back, but he has the versatility that allows him to play in different positions without no problems.

I didn’t have a voice or a vote at Madrid.

When you win something, if you don’t have that mentality that comes from a tradition of always winning, the built-in demands of a big club, there’s always a small dip.

I learned English, French, Italian.

A lot of young players relax a bit when they reach the first-team, thinking they have reached the finish line, but really, it’s just the beginning.

Always at Goodison Park, Everton is a very good team.

My first experience out of my country was Ecuador. That was a very good option for me. To know how you can develop your coaching style or your personality being away and being alone, that is not easy.

I think every team needs change every year.

You need the desire to demonstrate the way you can play, which team you are.

For some players, it is a dream to play at Madrid.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players’ characteristics.

I have enough problems trying to manage a team, without managing the FA.

We can all get better. We all have to think about how to improve ourselves, no matter how good we are.

I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words.

In Spain, I’d taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

I’ve always liked technical, creative central midfielders with the capacity to score goals, such as David Silva, Samir Nasri, and Santi Cazorla.

When I live in a country, I always try to learn about the country – not just England, the U.K. as a whole – so I will stay here some days to do something different.

Life is like a building: it is impossible for anyone to achieve anything without a strong foundation, and the family is the most important foundation you can have.

It’s not my duty to respond to what Mourinho says. I don’t know the way he thinks.

I love pressure; to manage such a big club as Manchester United is very good.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

I don’t believe in projects of more than three years.

I think that, as a manager and as a player, you must always be motivated.

As a manager, you worry about any different issue you have in your squad.

I never put myself in negative situations unless they happen.