The target for every great champion is to play for the team.
Antonio Conte
Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.
I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
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.
Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.
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.
Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.
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 you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.
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.
It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.
For me, to have my family with me is very important.
When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.
For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.
To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?
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.
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.
To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.
I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.
For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.
When I am not working, my family are the most important.
Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.
When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.
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 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.
Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.
For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.
I don't want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.
I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.
Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.
In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
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.
The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.
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.
It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.
Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.
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.
When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d'Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was impossible.
You have to have respect on the pitch.
My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.
It's important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals - these players are important.
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It's simple.
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.
As a player, I was very lucky to have so many good managers in my career. I remember the first two at Lecce: Eugenio Fascetti and Carlo Mazzone. They were very important for me and my growth.
