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.
Pep GuardiolaRead
If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.
Interpretation
Success requires overcoming significant challenges, especially in competitive environments.
This quote emphasizes the importance of facing and defeating formidable opponents in order to achieve success, particularly in the context of sports or competition. By referencing Juventus, a powerful team, Guardiola highlights that true victory lies not just in winning against lesser opponents, but in proving oneself against the best.
In practice
In a motivational speech to athletes preparing for a championship.
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.
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
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.
Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. It's already been a while now that he has been outstanding. He's more than decisive in every way. That he's capable of doing everything that he does at his age is something impressive, that doesn't make any sense.
There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.
I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don't believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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