In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

The first time I played England was at Wembley in 1991.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.

We want to be the team that no one can stand to play.

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

With me, what you see is what you get.

If I had to chose between Messi and Ronaldo, then most likely I would choose Messi.

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.

From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: 'What is the history behind this club?'

Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme - Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don't - because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.

When there are changes there will always be people who like it and people who don't.

Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.

From when I started to play with a ball I wanted to win everything.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

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.

For Altetico to keep wining we can only do one thing - work and fight.

There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

I say what I feel.

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.

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.

He's an animal, Diego Costa is an animal!

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.

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.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

In fact, a coach is primarily a trainer, not only in tactics but also in emotional matters.

VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

When we were children we played on the street - on tarmac and things like that.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

Like I've always said, in football the most important thing is the quality of minutes not the quantity.

Football is wonderful because everyone can have an opinion and make judgements about what they think and see.

I am very respectful and always have been.

Each person can think what they want.

Sometimes, there isn't respect for our ways, but you can't change people.

The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.

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.

Football is about balance.

I have to continue to be very demanding of myself in order to evolve.

I will never coach Real Madrid.

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.

Strikers are streaky creatures.

Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.