QUOTES by Rafael Benitez
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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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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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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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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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Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.
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I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!
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In all my time in England, I have never come up against a fragile Man United team.
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When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.
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When you are playing well, the players play with more confidence, sometimes without changing anything.
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As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'
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I understand 100 per cent why someone would want to buy Newcastle United. It's very clear: it has the potential to be one of the top sides.
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There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.
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When you have more money than anyone, and you can buy the players that you want, OK, you can buy the quality, and maybe you no longer mind about the other things.
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I was a PE teacher, and when you teach, you can say, 'You have to do this.' It's an order. That's one way. Or you can say, 'Listen, we have these problems, so give me the solution,' and they have to think about it. Or you can say, 'Here are three options - which one is best?'
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I don't always sleep for too long, but I sleep well. Sometimes when you have a doubt about team selection, you talk to your pillow, but in the morning, you have an idea.
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The family is something you are always missing, but it has to be like this. It is not easy for any manager to be with your family, in your house, and working at your nearest club. So you have to travel.
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To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.
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I will do my job: I will try to win every game until the last minute. That's it.
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I have won the Champions League, won the FIFA Club World Cup, the FA Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Spanish league twice, nine trophies, all the trophies you can win at club level.
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With Tenerife, we had to fight in the most difficult second division in Spain with Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, and Real Betis, and we were promoted. I know you have to fight until the last day. We were promoted in the last game.
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People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura,and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.
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It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.
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In Spain, the game is more technical; in England, it's more physical, while in Italy, it's more tactical. Each country is a challenge, and I like to put myself to the test.
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Whether a player rotates more or less depends on his form and his position. It's not the same for a center back as it is for a winger. Every player is different.
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The Champions League is the most important, but I love the Liga and the Copa.
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If the owner wants to support the team, that's okay. If the owner can be on the pitch and score a couple of goals, it would be better!
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I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.
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There are good players in Europe and all the way around the world, but better than Torres - no. I would not want to swap Fernando with anyone else in the world, because he is my player, and I'm very pleased with him.
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As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.
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Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.
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