- Best quotes from soccer coaches
- Soccer as a concept
- The Coaching Profession
- Success and failure
- Link with the players
- Peer rivalries
The best quotes from soccer coaches have their own names such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho or Arrigo Sachi, illustrious icons of the beautiful game and geniuses both in tactics and in the way of explaining football in words.
The accumulation of memorable quotes from the different coaches is so great that I have divided them into four sections to make reading more enjoyable. This partition is based on phrases about the concept of football, about the profession of coach, about success and failure, about the players and finally about rivalries (the latter the most morbid).
Here I leave you 89, but I am convinced that you know some more that deserves to be part of this list. Do you remember any of an illustrious coach or simply the one who trained you as a young man in your neighborhood? Add it in the comments section!
You may also be interested in these phrases about the football of great historical players.
Best quotes from soccer coaches
Soccer as a concept
1- “Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I am disappointed in that attitude. It's more important than that. ”- Bill Shankly
2- “Soccer is the most important of the least important”.- Jorge Valdano
3- “To play football you should not suffer. What is done while suffering cannot be successful. ”.- Carles Rexach
4- "They say that it is easier to change women than football teams… And it is true".- Pep Guardiola
5- “I can't believe it, I can't believe it. It's soccer. Damn! ”.- Sir Alex Ferguson after winning the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich in discount.
6- "Soccer is a simple sport in which while some like to talk, I love to win".- Fabio Capello
7- "In this life the only thing you cannot change is your mother and your team".- Diego Simeone
8- “Soccer is like that, just like life, it gives you surprises. If only the best win, this would be more boring than dancing with your sister. ”.- Luis Enrique
9- "And win, and win, and win, and win again, and win, and win, and win, and that is football, gentlemen".- Luis Aragonés
10- "The most difficult issue is to find something to replace football, because there is nothing.".- Kevin Keegan
11- "Playing against a team that defends itself is like making love with a tree".- Jorge Valdano
12- "To win a game the easiest thing is still having the ball".- Sir Alex Ferguson
13- "The goal must be a pass to the net".- César Luis Menotti
14- “Soccer has taken more from me than it has given me”.- José Mourinho
15- “Playing against the ball increases the possibility of losing, because human beings have a certain energy limitation. The footballer gets tired of running, the ball doesn't, never. ".- Manuel Pellegrini
16- “The only way I understand football is that of constant pressure, playing in the opponent's field and mastering the ball. I am obsessive about the attack. I watch videos to attack, not to defend. Do you know what my defensive job is? We all run ”.- Marcelo Bielsa
17- “Playing soccer is very simple, but playing simple soccer is the most difficult thing there is”.- Johan Cruyff
18- "I love fighting football: rainy days, heavy fields and seeing footballers with dirty faces without wanting to play for the next four weeks".- Jurgen Klopp
19- "A match without goals is like a Sunday without sun".- Alfredo di Stefano
20- "I am here to defend football and the professionals that comprise it".- Luis Aragonés
21- “Step on it, step on it, what the hell does the adversary matter to me, ours are from Colorado”.- Carlos Bilardo
22- “Concentration has always been an important message in my speech. When players leave the locker room, it is always the last thing I talk about. Soccer is more and more chess and in chess, if you lose concentration for a second, you're dead. ”- Sir Alex Ferguson
23- “Napoleon was not a tactician, but a strategist. If he had to change, he changed. That goes for football too. ”.- César Luis Menotti
24- "If you can't win, make sure you don't lose" - Johan Cruyff
25- "Soccer is always tomorrow".- Diego Simeone
The Coaching Profession
26- “The most educational tool that I have had has been through sports. I have learned to accept defeat, that someone else is better, to get up after not having done things well, to make an effort to do better… ”.- Pep Guardiola
27- "Coaches can commit two sins: making players who fly walk or pretending that those who can only walk fly".- Marcelo Bielsa
28- “Training is a love story with a club; you have to hope it lasts forever and accept that it could end tomorrow. ”- Arsene Wenger
29- "Not a golden ball is worth as much as the esteem of your own teammates".- Vicente del Bosque
30- "It would leave me more frustrated to give up personal values to achieve an end than not to win the title, being consistent with the idea".- Manuel Pellegrini
31- "Nowhere did I learn so much from myself and from others as on a court".- Jorge Valdano
32- “The most pleasant thing is to dedicate myself to this profession. Just stepping on a field dazzles me, the smell of grass ".- Luis Aragonés
33- “There are coaches who believe more than the players. When that happens it is a serious problem to be solved. ”.- Zinedine Zidane
34- “As a player it's easy. You only think about yourself. Later, if you have a head, you also think about the team. The coach has to think of everyone, on the contrary. ”.- Diego Simeone
35- "The most wonderful thing about my profession is imagining the game that is going to happen tomorrow".- Pep Guardiola
36- “The coach is the reference of the team, but the relationship must be open, just like the mind of each player. Everyone should do the same, pull in the same direction, to contribute to achieving the goal that is being pursued. ”.- Louis van Gaal
37- "The most beautiful thing for a coach is field work, there you see that your influence can be greater".- Gerardo Martino
38- “Not only the player must understand the coach. The coach must also understand the player. ”.- Diego Simeone
39- “What characterizes a good coach? What the players will say about him when it's all over. ”.- Pep Guardiola
Success and failure
40- “It is difficult to accept injustice boys. I know that nothing serene them now, because they killed themselves for the game, they deserved it and they didn't get it. Even if it is impossible for you, do not claim anything. Swallow poison. Strengthen yourselves that playing like this you are going to get what you deserve. Congratulations guys! Everyone, everyone! ”.- Marcelo Bielsa
41- "There are those who laugh after a victory, for me there is no time to celebrate successes".- José Mourinho
42- "To be successful as a player, coach and leader you have to have a lot of discipline, a lot of luck and be born in the country and at the right time".- Franz Beckenbauer
43- “You go to the stadium to win. Cinemas and theaters are here to have fun ".- Marcelo Lippi
44- "Success without honor is the greatest of failures".- Vicente del Bosque
45- “Success is continual. Does not exist. It is a night of celebration. Failure causes me pain. Because today the failure does not exist, even if he has the best intentions. Not because of me, but because my environment suffers more. I know what a prize is. I like that they value me not what I won, but how I won. ”.- Jorge Sampaoli
46- "The finals are not played, they are won".- Luis Aragonés
47- "Value what you have, you never know when your moment comes".- Tito Vilanova
48- “You can stop running, or stop playing for long minutes; the only thing you can't stop doing is thinking. ”.- César Luis Menotti
49- "Victory may be on the books, but the way to achieve it will remain in people's heads".- Arrigo Sacchi
50- “Defeat is really a defeat when we don't use it to learn and improve; If we use it for one of these two purposes, it is one more victory. ”.- Andoni Bombín
51- "If we lose we will continue to be the best team in the world, but if we win we will be eternal".- Pep Guardiola
52- "The good guys don't always win, those who fight win.".- Diego Simeone
53- "In football the first is a God and the second is shit".- Marcelo Lippi
54- “You have to fight to win with strength and courage, until the stadium shakes, until the people shout: goal, goal”.- Rafa Benitez
55- "There is nothing more dangerous than not taking risks".- Pep Guardiola
56- “We all want to win, but only the mediocre do not aspire to beauty. It's like trying to choose between a good idiot or a bad intelligent one. ”.- Jorge Valdano
57- "I'd rather lose a game by nine goals than nine games by one goal.".- Vujadin Boskov
58- “I never let myself be tempted by praise. The praise in soccer is of absolute hypocrisy. ”.- Marcelo Bielsa
Link with the players
59- "I will forgive the players who do not succeed, but I will never forgive them if they do not make an effort".- Pep Guardiola
60- “The best players are not necessarily taken to a national team: they take those who can make up a team, which is what you win in football”.- Marcelo Lippi
61- “The only way to be successful is unifying the players from amateurism. You have to try to pigeonhole them in the love of the shirt from enjoyment, not from obligation ".- Jorge Sampaoli
62- “I consider myself different as a coach because I train for the brain. I train so that footballers think, and this is more difficult because normally footballers think with their stomachs. ”- Louis van Gaal
63- "Come out and do not forget that you are an example for many children, that we must set an example at all times, that they will be aware of us, of what we do".- Vicente del Bosque to the players of the Spanish team before the final of the World Cup 2010
64- “The player of the XXI century will be precisely like Maradona. Short, but very athletic. With that magic that computers and Maradona also have ".- Helenio Herrera
65- “A woman is like a player: if she doesn't want to be in a certain position, she doesn't have to insist on her.
66- "As a goalkeeper does not arrive at the locker room full of mud, he is not a goalkeeper".- Javier Clemente
67- "My ideal team is the one in which, at any time and in any situation, all the players think the same way.".- José Mourinho
68- “No player is as good as all of them together”.- Alfredo di Stefano
69- “I need to hug my players and explain to them, I need to convince them, there is nothing more wonderful than trying to get your ideas into the heads of your players”.- Pep Guardiola
70- "Boys, kill yourselves because if there is something I cannot bear, it is watching the finals on television.".- Carlos Bilardo
71- "On Mondays I always think about changing ten players, on Tuesdays at seven or eight, on Thursdays at four, on Friday at two, and on Saturday I already think the same bastards have to play.".- JB Toshack
72- "Soccer players are like movie actors, they want to be applauded.".- Luis Aragonés
73- “Being the best takes away your happiness, hours with your wife, with your friends, it takes away parties, fun. You have a very big problem. Very very big. They have money but they don't have time to enjoy the money they have. What money gives you in terms of happiness. I already know that because I have seen it countless times. ”.- Marcelo Bielsa
74- "I try to create a protective atmosphere for my players, so that they can communicate with each other, so that they not only express themselves as players, but also as human beings".- Louis van Gaal
75- “It is very difficult to convince those who think differently. You can do it for a little while, but in the moment of crisis, they inevitably part ways. If you work with people who think like you, you avoid that. ”.- Jorge Sampaoli
Peer rivalries
76- “They say that Wenger is an intelligent man, he speaks five languages! I have a 15-year-old boy from Ivorian on my team who also speaks five languages. ”- Sir Alex Ferguson
77- "Bayern is like James Bond… but the villain".- Jurgen Klopp
78- "Football is so generous that it prevented Bilardo from dedicating himself to medicine".- César Luis Menotti
79- “In the field I try to learn a lot when I play against Mourinho. Outside the field I try to learn little. ”.- Pep Guardiola
80- “Cruyff is an egg-picker and an ashen and he doesn't know as much as he thinks”.- Javier Clemente
81- "I did not depend on Maradona, Maradona depended on me".- Carlos Bilardo
82- "Football is full of philosophers, every day more full of people with fantastic philosophical theories".- José Mourinho in reference to Guardiola
83- “It is more difficult to return from Bilbao than from Korea. A player who doesn't hit has no place with Clemente. ”.- Bernd Schuster
84- "Benito Floro is a good coach, but he has no idea about football".- JB Toshack
85- "Arsène Wenger likes to play football like a silent orchestra, I like heavy metal more".- Jurgen Klopp
86- "Mourinho may be a very good person in private and a very good coach, but what he teaches the world is something else".- Johan Cruyff
87- "Madrid, as Franco's club, got what they wanted".- Sir Alex Ferguson
88- “Please, do not call me arrogant, I am European champion and I think I am special. Wenger, Ferguson and Benítez will never be as special as me. ”.- José Mourinho
89- "I have not messed with Maradona, I just called him an idiot".- Javier Clemente