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.

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

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

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

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

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

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

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

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

Samir Nasri is a very technical player who always made the difference playing as a midfielder when he is fit.

For me, the youth academy has a fundamental role in every club.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

I'm not obsessed by football.

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.

I like English football; it's a very important league. I like the crowds in England, too - they are noisy and create a special ambience.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

Football is so difficult to predict.

This hunger of triumph is fundamental in order to get results.

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

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

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

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

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