54 Inspiring Pep Guardiola Quotes (LEADERSHIP)

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“I don’t like it when a player says, ‘I like freedom; I want to play for myself.’ Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.”
Pep Guardiola

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won’t take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful. — We need the whole squad, every player of the **team**, if we are to be **successful**.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard. — I will **forgive** if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

If I believed in it, and it wasn’t productive for the team, I wouldn’t do it. — If I **believed** in it, and it wasn’t productive for the team, I wouldn’t do it.

For my experience, my family. I will always be grateful for the people who brought me here. — For my experience, my **family**. I will always be grateful for the people who brought me here.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow Amazing. — Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

15 Pep Guardiola Quotes on his Coaching Philosophy (TIKI-TAKA)

“I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.”
Pep Guardiola

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible. — If there isn’t a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I’m sorry, guys. I’m not going to change. — I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I’m sorry, guys. I’m not going to **change**.

A perfectionist? That's part of my job. — A perfectionist? That’s part of my job.

“There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don’t know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don’t have the physique, the legs, to go outside.”
Pep Guardiola

It’s natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.' — It’s natural for players to be **relaxed**, so you have to be there to say, ‘You have to do it again and again and again.’

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season. — We cannot **change** absolutely everything in one season.

“Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviors off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.”
Pep Guardiola

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive. — I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, **respect** the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

“People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he’s the weakest link. We’re there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don’t play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.”
Pep Guardiola

All the managers in the world, it doesn’t matter how good you are, if your players don’t understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.

I don’t understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me. — I don’t understand the lack of **respect** for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.

Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

7 Inspirational Pep Guardiola Quotes on Success

“I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.”
Pep Guardiola

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance. — From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last **chance**.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world. — I have **learned** that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

I don’t want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible. — I don’t want preconceptions. I want to **learn** as much as possible.

Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that – fight.

I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.

“I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That’s when that inspiration comes – the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I’ve got it. I know how to win. It’s the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful.”
Pep Guardiola

5 Pep Guardiola Quotes on Playing Football

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball. — I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don’t have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve. — I am here just to **learn**, to improve, to help my team improve.

That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry. — That’s the **beauty** of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

7 Pep Guardiola Quotes that will Make You Think

“People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that’s not always the case.”
Pep Guardiola

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions. — As **time** goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty. — I’m going with the understanding that I’ve done my **duty**.

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.

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better. — We all feel that hunger in football. With **Cruyff**, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.

My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

“The result is an empty thing. The result is I’m happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.”
Pep Guardiola