Quotes from Tite

A team has to be prepared for the various situations in the game.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

Brazil needs the individual creativity of Neymar, Philippe Coutinho, Douglas Costa. But it needs the collective creativity that sometimes people don't pay attention to.

Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.

When you are captain, how to project yourself.

You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.

We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.

Having been at big clubs, when you sometimes don't produce, then don't expect the fans to understand. They will boo.

Coaches are overvalued.

Coaches are always looking to evolve.

All the players have this responsibility of playing for the collective and also being individuals with some specific characteristics.

Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

My thing is in the pitch, that's my concern.

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

You have to create possibilities for the finish in the final third of the pitch, I'm not going to take that away from anybody.

If Brazil depends only on Neymar there will be a problem with Brazil, not with Neymar.

To play here and win here in Uruguay is a very difficult thing. Here you have a really strong atmosphere, energy. You have to have your highest focus. You have physical, technical, tactical and mental aspects.

I do not even know the limit of Neymar. His technical and creative ability is impressive. When we release him in the last third of the field, he's lethal.

The players are the essence of the game. It is their creativity, the technical capacity of the player - the players have to be free to explore their individual creativity in the last third of the field, the team able to attack with six players, without concern for the defence.

Having recognition is not a sin, growing up is no sin, be star is not a sin, have technical skills is not a sin. To evolve in what is wrong is also a process of maturing.

I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication... everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs.

When you demand performance, players raise their game technically. But if you put all the emphasis on results, that brings their level down.

I would go to a team where I always felt happy - as a person, as a human being and as a family, because there I will be professionally better.