Words matter. These are the best Didier Deschamps Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.
You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can’t be done overnight.
We can’t hide from the truth.
We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.
The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you’re working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.
He might not be very tall, but he’s very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.
Benzema is a team player, he is very important for us. He always wants to score with us, but scoring is not everything to him.
When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.
Playing an ultra-defensive side is very difficult.
Scoring eight goals is never easy.
What’s important is you mustn’t focus too early and try to play the game before it actually begins.
All the great teams need a real top striker in order to win in Europe.
Kylian is able to do extraordinary things. Look at his stats. He is efficient.
It happens to attackers that they have a longer or shorter period where they are not always efficient.
For me, I always considered that a group is above everything else.
You can’t win anything more special than a World Cup.
Nothing is impossible. Lassana Diarra did not play for France for five years and then returned.
Those friendly games are not pointless. They enable us to go forward.
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.
To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.
I always ask myself if a decision is in the team’s best interest.
Creativity is making a good pass at the right time… but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.
When you’re a coach there’s no age limit. It’s the results that make you last.
It is always good to be careful or vigilant.
There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep.
Quality has no age.
Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don’t show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.
History is in the past and tomorrow we will try and write a new page.
Being prudent does not mean being fearful.
We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.
Paul Pogba can do everything but he cannot do everything all alone.
There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.
I don’t think you just become a leader.
When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don’t take the 23 best players, that is for sure.
You can’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Right, now I’m going to be a leader.’ I think it is something that’s in you, that you’re born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can’t force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.
Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That’s management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.
My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing – never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is ‘boiling.’ I have paid for such an experience.
We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.
Even when things are going well, there are always aspects that can be improved.
It’s quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.
I wish Kylian to have the same career as Thierry Henry.
I’m not immune to disciplinary problems and it’s up to me to make strong choices. It’s my responsibility.
The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.
When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn’t relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.
Look, I was a water carrier, I don’t reject my image. I didn’t have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.
There are always crucial, decisive players in every side who make the difference and do not necessarily depend on others.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to slip back into bad habits.
For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.
In football, you don’t hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don’t, you make sure the opposition doesn’t.
You always learn, especially in failure.
To build experience, you have to play.
My players need to have the feeling that they’ve pushed themselves to their limits.
You have to live in your times.
It’s hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.
One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.
Messi plays in Spain, we know he makes a difference, but if you’ve played against him then maybe you’re aware of situations that can repeat on the pitch. But Messi is Messi, with his talent, he may send a spark with very little and make the difference. He is unpredictable.
What I can say is that I feel very good as the national team coach. I really enjoy it.
Brazil remains a reference to the sport.
We can always play better.
Having fresh players is important.
To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.
For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.
With the support of all our fans, we have to be stronger than our opponents.
There are a lot of Kylians, but only one Kylian Mbappe.
We can always improve everything.
When you play Argentina and Messi, there are several ways to limit his impact, at least.
I am not a very good dancer.
Competition is for everyone.
There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.
My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.
You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.
Continuity is very important for national teams.
Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can’t fight that, I have to adapt and change.
People always want the same thing: to carry on winning.
