Quotes from Diego Simeone

I am very respectful and always have been.

Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.

Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

I like brave people.

Heart can cancel out budget.

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.

Finding myself in a final with Atletico makes me happy. Why? Because I know the feelings of all the people at the club - because I know how the players feel. They need to see their team as champions, so we have more fans every day.

Geminis are aggressive, changeable, intense.

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?

It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

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.

Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win.

Strikers are streaky creatures.

When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

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

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.

I have to continue to be very demanding of myself in order to evolve.

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.

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