Top 60 Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

When Real Madrid call you, you have to listen to them.

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.

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.

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

To be a player is so difficult.

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

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.

My only focus is to try to assess and to provide the players with better tools to perform.

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.

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

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

Always it is important to improve.

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

I enjoy my time in Tottenham a lot.

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.

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

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

For me, Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world. I don’t think he needs to show anyone that he is one of the best.

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

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.

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

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.

My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.

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

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

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 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 we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.

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 don’t want to lie. Always, I want to be honest and I say,I don’t think about tomorrow. I don’t think about next season.’

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

The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my complex answers, it’s much better I have an interpreter to make sure nothing is misconstrued.

The most important thing is how you are made to feel in your home.

I am so proud to be a manager in England.

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

Tottenham has given me value.

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.

For me, every single game is an opportunity to improve.

I don’t have social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, nothing. I don’t receive information. That’s why my head, my face, looks younger than I really am.

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

I always said anything is possible in football if you have faith and quality.

We need to be regular and have consistency during the whole season.

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

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

I am a person who is always positive.

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

I take every season as it being different.

When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win – you play for something special. It’s the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.

It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.

We have short memories in football.

He is a killer, Harry Kane.