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.

I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.

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.

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.

There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

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.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

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.

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.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.

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

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

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

Never mind where you are, you have to fight until the end. It's important you never give up.