Words matter. These are the best Quique Setien Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am used to working with what I have.
Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.
In moments of frustration one may not have refined comments.
You will see that I am a direct and sincere person, I don’t beat around the bush and I will address something if I see it.
I understand football through the ball. There are others who interpret the game without the ball.
Sometimes players aren’t playing where they feel or play best, but they must put their all into what’s best for the team.
VAR is a tool we have that can make us better. But we must use it and have a clearer vision of reality.
Any footballer who understands space and time and positioning can become a better player because he knows how to receive the ball alone with time to play a pass or shoot.
If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was worth it.
I always tell the players that we have to expect the best version of our opposition.
When I arrived at Lugo, the whole world told me you can’t play that football in Segunda B. I said we could, and was there six years.
Hard work is the most important. Conviction also, but real hard work.
The formation is important but not that important. The important thing is the concepts in each position on the pitch. That has to be integrated into the players’ heads. The players will develop when they understand it.
I think the best way to victory is to play well.
What I feel for the ball, what I enjoy, as a player and now as a coach, the satisfaction I feel when I see great players, is the same as in the school playground: seeing moves build, seeing understanding, passes flow, seeing it all fit together. That’s what I admire and ultimately, that’s what you learn at school.
There is a great part of the professional world that I don’t like.
You read things in the papers but I never really expected Barcelona to choose me. It all happened in a hurry.
I take into account the importance and the hierarchy of each player, but in a club like Barca with so many players… I know that some are going to get angry because not all are fit and it is a decision that I must take responsibility for, and that is what I do.
Real Madrid are a team who are a little anarchic.
I don’t have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.
Madrid’s players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they’re not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.
Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.
Of course I have dreamed about that – and about showing off the Champions League trophy to the cows back in Liencres.
I’ve come from the bottom, I’ve got used to working with what I have.
I have always thought winning on its own is not enough. You have to have continuity in what you do. The things you do have to last.
Speak to me about football; the rest doesn’t interest me. The rest doesn’t help me in my job.
I will always try to make my team play well because that way we are more likely to win.
I listen to everyone but I am the first to defend what I believe.
Yesterday I was walking past cows in my village and today I am at Barca, coaching the best players in the world. This is the pinnacle for me.
I like to have fewer players. That way, everyone is plugged into what you’re doing. There is a risk attached to that sometimes but it’s good to have a smaller squad. People have more chance of playing; they’re ready and more motivated. Having 18 real players is better than having 25 or 26 not playing.
Las Palmas, Lugo, Betis… if you followed them, you know we had an identity. You saw it, we played good football.
I only guarantee one thing when I take over a new club: that we play good football.
I love to watch and have great footballers and if I can watch Neymar every day, just imagine.
There are coaches who put more or less players in front of the ball; when you put lots of players ahead of the ball, the risk is magnified. There are coaches that won’t contemplate that. I respect that.
For many players the opportunity to be able to play with Messi represents a huge incentive.
I’m interested in the football; everything outside of that is something I can’t control.
I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.
If there is something I don’t like, I will say so.
It is not easy to change things in a footballer that other coaches told him were very good.
Everything can happen in soccer. We have seen inexplicable things.
When you come to a new team there’s always uncertainty about how they’re going to respond.
Pressure is not imposed on me by the club, I impose it on myself.
Every player has what they have but some outperform themselves. It’s about learning and expanding your abilities and becoming even better still.
It’s true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that’s nothing new.
I have seen some great players doing wonderful things, but being so decisive for so long over 12 or 14 years as a professional, I think no player, maybe only Pele in his time, has shown that level. He shows it in every game. I don’t know how many hat-tricks he’s had.