Quotes from Pep Guardiola

It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

The Premier League is so difficult.

I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.

If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.

The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

Alexis Sanchez would fit in any team in the world.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.