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.

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn out from my pinky going back and forth over the wood over all these years. I got Willie Nelson to sign that spot on my guitar. I'm a huge fan of him.

I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

I see myself as a serious artist, but yeah, when people come to my shows, they want to hear 'What Was I Thinkin',' 'Drunk on a Plane,' and lots of up-tempo, fun songs.

My dog Jake ran up to Dolly Parton, and he put his nose up her skirt. We were like, 'Oh my God, don't do that.' I didn't know Dolly, and she said, 'Watch out there little doggie, don't start something you can't finish.'

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.