Quotes from Tite

I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never know.

There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.

In an individual sport you can always plan your ideal peak, but in a team sport the experience of playing in the qualifiers makes you stronger as a unit.

Neymar reassures you, because he brings unpredictability to your game. Because he will offer you an individual or collective solution that others cannot, and with him, the potential of a team is not the same, because he will sparkle.

A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don't see that as a valid result. For me, there has to be another way.

The collective strengthens the individual.

It's one thing to throw Rodrygo into a system that's already structured, like Real's. It's another thing to put him in a team that is being reassembled, even if he was doing the same job in the same position.

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

All of us are human beings and we evolve.

I want to evolve and keep evolving.

I have to know my limits.