I'm a believer that emotions can move mountains, that spirit alone can trump budgets.
Diego Simeone
There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.
Diego Costa always gives us physical and moral strength. He is a very important player for the character he transmits to the team, and his potential as a football player.
A coach I admire? Jurgen Klopp. No doubt.
When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don't understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.
I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.
I say what I feel.
I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.
I will never coach Real Madrid.
Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.
We play to win, with the arms that we have.
As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.
The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.
Strikers are streaky creatures.
At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.
I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.
It's not enough to just have talent at Atletico Madrid. At other clubs it is, but we can't sign superstars and have to look for players with a good work ethic.
What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.
Winning is always beautiful.
Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.
I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.
I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.
He's an animal, Diego Costa is an animal!
Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.
I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.
When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.
He who brings a style to a club that can't carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.
The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.
Catania was a real learning curve. I grew amid difficulties. In terms of courage and ideas, a lot about my Atleti comes from Italy.
I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.
If there is one thing I am, it is very hard-headed. If I want something, I go after it - and I go after it ad nauseum.
It's difficult to get ready to face a player like Cristiano Ronaldo. He's a goal animal.
It is always good and important that the strikers score.
Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.
I'm very happy in charge at Atletico. The squad give me commitment, talent and style.
Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.
Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it's not just any second, it's a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it's not. In an instant it's over - you won't have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.
I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.
Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.
Geminis are aggressive, changeable, intense.
I like brave people.
Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.
Heart can cancel out budget.
I would never close the door on any job because I like to work, I like football.
I would never close the door on coaching in Mexico.
Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.
Liga MX is a great environment, the fans are very enthusiastic.
In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.
