Top 66 Pep Guardiola Quotes

Barcelona are special in the way they play. They’re a machine.

It doesn’t mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it’s my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It’s the way I believe. I’m not special.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.

In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, ‘You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.’ So, let’s do it. We are going to try.

When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

Alexis Sanchez would fit in any team in the world.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he’s the weakest link. We’re there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don’t play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

At the end of the day, it’s my players play against their players, and the end of the day, that’s what’s important.

To score four times against an Italian team when you trail 2-0 is a big deal.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.

I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

I have to understand the rules here in England.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don’t go any further than that.

I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I’m sorry, guys. I’m not going to change.

The reason we are here is thinking, ‘What can we do to make this club a better club?’ I don’t want the guys to think about what the club can do for them.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

The Premier League is so difficult.

If I believed in it, and it wasn’t productive for the team, I wouldn’t do it.

The result is an empty thing. The result is I’m happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.

I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don’t believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

People say, ‘Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,’ or, ‘Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.’ I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles… sorry, guys, it was good!

I want to play the football I feel.

The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

It’s a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

Will I be a success? I don’t know.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

I enjoy every day in Manchester. I am confident we can make a step forward to make people proud of us.

I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

You hear all these people saying, ‘Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.’ Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.

I am so happy when I feel emotion about the way my team plays.

It’s natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, ‘You have to do it again and again and again.’

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that’s not always the case.

I don’t think in the big clubs in Europe you can find three strikers with an average age of 20.

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.

Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That’s the reason I am here.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I’m sorry.

I don’t like it when a player says, ‘I like freedom; I want to play for myself.’ Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

I don’t want players who don’t want to stay.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

People want to be entertained. They don’t want to be cheated.

I want happiness for the players.

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

When you’re out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don’t see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won’t take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.

I want to win games; I don’t want to lose games.

I know the people expect the best – good. The people expect we’ll play fantastic football and win games – good. I can’t control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

The fundamentals, what I want, which is to take the ball, try to play as offensive as possible and dominate the game through the ball, is the same. I grew up with that; I was a player with that idea, and I am a coach with that idea.

You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn’t work, you have to find a solution.