Quotes About Tactics

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: 'What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?'

Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.

For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world.

Pep Guardiola tactically brings a gift that is second to none in the world.

Pep Guardiola was very good for the Bundesliga.

It's always fascinating to watch Pep Guardiola teams.

When I became a coach, I began to admire Pep Guardiola.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

Playing Risk - it's a perfect night before you go to bed.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Zico is a great manager and he knows the game perfectly.

I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon for the same reason ordered his generals to have the beards of the Macedonians shaved, because they were a convenient handle for the enemy to grasp.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.