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

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

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

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.

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

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I say what I feel.

Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

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

There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.