Antonio Conte
I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.Collection: Respect
When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.Collection: Experience
The target for every great champion is to play for the team.Collection: Great
The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.
In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.
I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.
I don't want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.
You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
You don't create a big and strong team easily.
I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
It's important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals - these players are important.
If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.
When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.
To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?
If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.
My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.
For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.
I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.
It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.
You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.
You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.
It's important to win with style.
I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.
I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.
It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.
For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.
It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.
All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.
If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don't feel this pressure.
When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.
The pressure, for me, is not important. I was born with pressure. The pressure is not important for me.
When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d'Or.
When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
When I am not working, my family are the most important.
When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.
When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.
Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.
Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.