It is always difficult, but when you have been a manager for a while with different teams, sometimes you were only playing once a week, trying to avoid relegation. When you have experience, you know all about the different feelings. Clearly, I would prefer to be fighting for the title or for the Champions League, but you must accept the situation.

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Time Experience Age

Whenever you lose, it's always bad, and especially against Barcelona.

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You Whenever Ways

There are many coaches who talk about referees every day.

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Who Very Talk

I go to the training ground early in the morning, between 7:30 A.M. and 8:30 A.M. Not just me, my staff. Then, sometimes I leave at 8 P.M. or 6 P.M.

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Time Morning Us

For me, there is only one club in England, and that's Liverpool.

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T Pool Only

I have to do what I have to do so that we can win games.

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Win T Me

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

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Time Men Understanding

Wenger is a great manager, a great person, someone who knows the league here in England.

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Great Age Who

Everyone has to have the same targets, and the fans are very important for every team, for the motivation of the players. It's the same in every club.

Rafael Benitez

Very Team Tea

How can you change things when you are under pressure? You don't tell a player who keeps giving the ball away not to touch the ball; you keep training and working hard.

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Work Change You

In all my time in England, I have never come up against a fragile Man United team.

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Time Up United

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

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Money Good You

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

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Would Use Us

I am consistent rather than courageous.

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Courage Age Us

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

Rafael Benitez

World Cup World Winning

In England, there is a tradition of playing on Saturday. But in Spain, I won the UEFA Cup with Valencia playing on Thursday and Sunday, which was just the same.

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Yin Won Wit

Whenever people say things about me, it always comes back to Liverpool - but I cannot just become 'the former manager.' I am a professional football manager.

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Age Whenever Ways

What features in a midfielder am I after? Players who have the mindset to win every game - then we can start to talk about the technical quality.

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Art Win Who

It is always difficult, but when you have been a manager for a while with different teams, sometimes you were only playing once a week, trying to avoid relegation. When you have experience, you know all about the different feelings. Clearly, I would prefer to be fighting for the title or for the Champions League, but you must accept the situation.

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Time Experience Age

We want to win trophies and be in the record books.

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Win Want Trophies

I like working on the pitch, staying focused.

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Work Yin Working

Sometimes you have to praise players.

Rafael Benitez

I don't think where they live is important to footballers.

Rafael Benitez

When someone gets angry during a training session but then does their job, there's no problem; it's fine.

Rafael Benitez

Competition in football means someone will improve.

Rafael Benitez

I don't spend all day thinking about football. But a large part of it, yeah.

Rafael Benitez

Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach a such a big team. But I would never take that job, in respect for my former team at Liverpool, no matter what.

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I am a Madrid fan.

Rafael Benitez

The fans say you can do this and that, but you have to analyse the potential of the team with your staff. Will it be enough to be at the top until the end of the season? You never know.

Rafael Benitez

I have been doing this for a long ,and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

Rafael Benitez

There are massive clubs with massive amounts of money, and Liverpool were always a little bit behind. But if you create a good team, a good atmosphere, and work hard, you can get there. You can win trophies.

Rafael Benitez

Having the family around is always very important because they are supportive. If you have a good day, you can enjoy it together. And if you have a bad day, you always find something as a distraction with your children, because they are normally happy.

Rafael Benitez

Real Madrid approach each match and each competition with the idea of winning it.

Rafael Benitez

I love the Beatles.

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Always you will miss something if you have to go, because you are trying to improve players who are people. You talk with them and work with them every day. You will miss them.

Rafael Benitez

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

Rafael Benitez

I was under pressure in my first season at Valencia, and we won the title. Two years later, I was under more pressure there, and we won the title and the UEFA Cup.

Rafael Benitez

I like 'Only Fools and Horses' and 'Father Ted.'

Rafael Benitez

I was lucky to see Di Stefano, on the pitch, in person. He was a winner, as is Raul.

Rafael Benitez

When I arrived at Liverpool, the budget was £20m gross. When I left, it was £17m, but still people said I must win the title. Manchester United had around £50m more every year, but they said I must compete against them.

Rafael Benitez

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it's the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It's positive and unique when you have that.

Rafael Benitez

As a manager, I have to keep calm.

Rafael Benitez

The most important thing is that my players work well. What people say on the outside is not important.

Rafael Benitez

I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.

Rafael Benitez

I come from a Napoli team who scored 104 goals. Do you think I'm going to be hyper-defensive with Real Madrid? A team that creates chances and is great in possession is not defensive.

Rafael Benitez

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

Rafael Benitez

I have always had sympathy for Atletico Madrid because, among other things, I have friends there, and my father always liked Atletico.

Rafael Benitez

When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the others.

Rafael Benitez

You cannot win every year.

Rafael Benitez

I knew off by heart the names of the Real Madrid team that played Liverpool in the European Cup final of 1981.

Rafael Benitez

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

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