Quotes from Rafael Benitez

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.

When someone gets angry during a training session but then does their job, there's no problem; it's fine.

I like working on the pitch, staying focused.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

I don't spend all day thinking about football. But a large part of it, yeah.

I am a Madrid fan.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.