Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

I'm very happy in charge at Atletico. The squad give me commitment, talent and style.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

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.

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.