Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

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.

Always, you miss all the players when they are injured.

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.

When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, ‘I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,’ you say, ‘OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?’

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

When you talk about Beckham, he’s a massive world icon.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

Tottenham has given me value.

Being a captain means a lot – it’s not just about wearing the armband.

I always remember being competitive. From the beginning, with my brothers, with my friends, playing at school, everything – in everything I was involved in.

After games, my wife gives me a lot of advice and criticism. Sometimes, I am upset. I say, ‘Why do you advise me this?’ But I like it, because to listen to a different point of view is always important. You can find a different position or point of view that can help you to be more creative.

I work with young people, and I know that we must be careful. Newspaper headlines, sudden notoriety, and important comparisons can lead to confusion.

We have short memories in football.

What is going to happen tomorrow, I don’t know, but I will always tell you ‘football is football.’ Football will put you in your place always.

To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.

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.

For me, family and football are the most important things. They are in the same level.

Sometimes when you have lost, you don’t want to speak to anybody.

When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.

To be a player is so difficult.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

I take every season as it being different.

The best agent for me is myself.

Always it is important to improve.

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?’

If you win, of course celebrate and show the fans you’re happy – it’s fantastic – but when you win a trophy, when you win something special.

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.

Managers and players at different clubs, it’s difficult to compare.

The platform that we have created here in Tottenham is the most important, the platform we created between all the coaching staff – in the academy and the first team. The platform we created is more important than one person.

I feel very important at Tottenham, very comfortable, and I enjoy the journey a lot.

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.

If we don’t need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

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.

Rumours are rumours and always happen, not only at Tottenham but every team.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

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.

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

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.

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.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

A lot can happen in football.

You never know in football.

It’s difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

I am not a person who is going to convince players to stay or not stay.

Every single club is special and is different.

What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you’re capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you’re a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That’s my objective in Tottenham.

He is a killer, Harry Kane.

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.

I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.

You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.

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.

I am a person who is always positive.

Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It’s a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.

I am so proud to be a manager in England.

I’m someone who likes new things, likes change. But I also like challenges. I was a little bit of a prisoner to my challenge each time.

I am a very lucky person because I am not focused on social media and all that happens around.

I am not the victim, and I won‘t be the victim in football or life.

It is always in our dream to win, and you need to dream of bigger things.