Mauricio Pochettino
Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.Collection: Faith
I take every season as it being different.
Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.
I grew up in Newell's Old Boys and will never manage Rosario Central. That is my decision because I prefer to work on my farm in Argentina than in some places.
My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.
Nothing is impossible in football, and that is our idea, our philosophy.
I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.
The most important thing is to explain day by day that life is very short, and we need to spend the day thinking and enjoying life. We can't been thinking too much and worrying about what is happening tomorrow.
Always, you miss all the players when they are injured.
When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.
It motivates me, being a parakeet and living for so many years in Barcelona. Going back to the city is always something nice, and playing against Barca, too.
We can't see every small detail in football.
When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.
I enjoy my time in Tottenham a lot.
I am so proud to be a manager in England.
Sometimes, my kids say to me, 'Ah, you played with Maradona; you played with this, or you played with that.' And they are so proud.
The best agent for me is myself.
When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.
That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.
For me, every single game is an opportunity to improve.
Sometimes when you have lost, you don't want to speak to anybody.
You never know in football.
I think people always expect that when you have a good season and expect the next season to be better, and the season after better and better.
For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.
A lot can happen in football.
If we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.
We need to be regular and have consistency during the whole season.
You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.
All players need to feel confidence from the staff, the players, the supporters. All need to be consistent in training and games to give their best.
Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.
Being a captain means a lot - it's not just about wearing the armband.
It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.
The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.
When you are young, you need to know the reality because when you are in your bubble, you believe that, always, all you do is right. And sometimes you need people who say, 'Hey, come on, what happened with you?'
When you are next to Harry Kane, achieving all he is and scoring so many goals, it's normal that the focus is on Harry Kane.
When you talk about Beckham, he's a massive world icon.
If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?
We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.
When you are better than your opposition for 45 minutes and create six chances, if you don't score, you are in danger in the Premier League. It's the best league in the world.
The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.
He is a killer, Harry Kane.
I would put Harry Kane in with Batistuta. All that is happening to him, he deserves. He is the protagonist of his life, and he deserves all the prize.
Every single club is special and is different.
I am not a person who is going to convince players to stay or not stay.
I feel happy here in Tottenham because I feel the recognition for our job.
Tottenham has given me value.
The most important thing is how you are made to feel in your home.
I think the most important thing is to keep going and fighting to be in a good position. Like many clubs say, to be in the top four is a massive success.
If your own fans didn't want you, there is no point to carry on working because you are going to damage first of all your company, your club.
All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.