We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.
Pep Guardiola
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.
Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.
I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.
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.
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.
I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.
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 proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.
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.
I enjoy every day in Manchester. I am confident we can make a step forward to make people proud of us.
For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.
I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. I'm loving Manchester City.
Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.
The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.
All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
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.
From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.
I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.
People say, 'Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,' or, 'Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.' I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles... sorry, guys, it was good!
I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.
The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.
We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.
I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.
Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.
When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.
In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.' So, let's do it. We are going to try.
For my experience, my family. I will always be grateful for the people who brought me here.
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.
Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.
It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.
Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.
Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.
I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.
