Quotes from Manuel Pellegrini

It's not my duty to respond to what Mourinho says. I don't know the way he thinks.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

I will never play to just score one goal, then run behind the ball.

I think football must be attractive for fans, and that means scoring goals.

You always depend on what the owners think of the job you are doing.

Always at Goodison Park, Everton is a very good team.

It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

Cristiano's strength always gives the team a boost in every way.

If you do not know each player individually, one on one, it is impossible to form a team from 22 distinct personalities, different languages, different home countries, but with one common aim.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

There are lots of different ways to play football; I choose one in my career. I believe in that one.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

I always give a lot of importance to the cups.

Football is so difficult to predict.

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

I am sure that the important managers always want to work here in the Premier League.