Quotes from Tite

Ancelotti's teams are more balanced. It's a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also his discreet profile. I am also like that.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

Coutinho, Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar, Douglas Costa, Taison... they think fast and execute fast. The final third of the pitch requires that.

Alisson is an excellent goalkeeper.

The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.

I would like to live in the country that wins less, but has more stability. Brazilian coaches remain, on average, in a job for three months.

I demand Casemiro play the same role he plays at his club, Real Madrid.

You don't pay for winning like that - whether it's the World Cup, whether it's the Brazilian national team. Paying the price with someone's health or rushing someone's recovery, we don't do that.

The message to all Brazilians is that talent alone does not win the World Cup, it's about working hard.

I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I would sit in front of the radio with my father, and we would listen to the magic of football. It was like the matches were a dramatic story being told to us. It was a kind of art, in my opinion. It was like a painting or a great novel.

The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you're hyper, you try to slow it down; if you're a bit low, you try to hype it up.

The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.

In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.

As time goes by, people grow and mature.

The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.

I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.

A team is strong because they have players who have different characteristics, but they are all important so sometimes the needs of the game impose themselves.

Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

Pele is incomparable.

Neymar, I'm not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch - his genius.

Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.

I don't mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

Allan is good in transition, going box to box, leading counter attacks and breaks. He's mobile and brings protection defensively.