Quotes from Unai Emery

My first message is clear. Enjoy the challenges of each match.

Usually, I don't look behind; every day, I'm looking at the next matches - what's in front.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

Each player has this quality, this characteristic to help the team as a collective. For me, that is very important.

I respect a lot the players: their hair and their hair colour.

My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

I speak to lots of coaches, but those are private conversations.

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

The Premier League is at the top, and everyone wants to be in the top leagues.

I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

Defensive moments are for each and every player.

I am very demanding of myself.

Our demands are very high, very great, but I want to ask every player every day to give us more.

Wherever I've been, I've tried to soak up the essence of the club, the town, and to transmit that to the players.

In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.

Before Wenger came, Arsenal celebrated 1-0 and were based on defensive solidity. With Arsene, joy came from attacking, with players of good standing. And the perfect combination was the Invincibles. But over time, only technical quality and offensive freedom were taken care of, losing the defensive structure.

My first thing with every club I have worked in is to get a personal relationship with the players and then build a professional one.