Top 75 Antonio Conte Quotes

Perhaps I’ll work as a director of football. I don’t know.

Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d’Or.

When I am not working, my family are the most important.

Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don’t win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

To defend – it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

You have to have respect on the pitch.

I miss Italy; that’s beyond doubt.

When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don’t stay here, it is not simple.

If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don’t feel this pressure.

For me, it’s important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.

I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.

To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.

Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.

The most important thing for me is the work, my job, and then to go to my house to be satisfied with my work.

I must take the best decision for the club, not for a single player.

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

It’s important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals – these players are important.

My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.

In my team, I don’t want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don’t want that in my club. Never.

The target for every great champion is to play for the team.

I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don’t think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.

It’s important to win with style.

I don’t think a player like Messi is a selfish player.

Every season is tough.

When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d’Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was impossible.

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.

You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.

When a player deserves to play, with me, he’ll play.

For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It’s very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.

I don’t want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.

We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.

I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

I try to dress well. Not just now at Chelsea, but all my career, at my clubs and the national team in Italy, I like to wear a nice suit on the touchline.

I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It’s important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong – the right movement.

For me, to have my family with me is very important.

I don’t want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It’s very difficult to do this? I don’t think so.

Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.

My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.

It’s important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

You don’t create a big and strong team easily.

When someone makes a mistake, it’s right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.

It’s important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player’s strength and their weakness.

I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.

If they deserve it, I’m ready to play with very young players. Why not?

For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don’t like to lose.

Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they’re relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.

The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.

I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.

The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I’d like to carry on as manager.

You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He’s an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

I think, in every situation, it’s important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.

Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.

I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.

It’s not important, the relationship between the coaches.

Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It’s important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

Every coach, during a game, it is important to understand the situation to change.

Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.

When the technique doesn’t arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.

I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.

I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don’t have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.

I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.