Football Quotes by Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

— Pep Guardiola

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

— Pep Guardiola

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

— Pep Guardiola

The Premier League is so difficult.

— Pep Guardiola

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

— Pep Guardiola

I am so happy when I feel emotion about the way my team plays.

— Pep Guardiola

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.

— Pep Guardiola

I tried making Messi the best player in the World, but he ended up making me one of the best managers in…

— Pep Guardiola

I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul…

— Pep Guardiola

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

— Pep Guardiola

You hear all these people saying, 'Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.' Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by…

— Pep Guardiola

I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.

— Pep Guardiola

There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to…

— Pep Guardiola

The reason we are here is thinking, 'What can we do to make this club a better club?' I don't want the…

— Pep Guardiola

In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because…

— Pep Guardiola

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious…

— Pep Guardiola

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it…

— 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…

— Pep Guardiola

The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will…

— Pep Guardiola

When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the…

— Pep Guardiola

It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas,…

— Pep Guardiola

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team,…

— Pep Guardiola

Barcelona are special in the way they play. They're a machine.

— Pep Guardiola

Alexis Sanchez would fit in any team in the world.

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

I want to play the football I feel.

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.

— Pep Guardiola

There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.

— Pep Guardiola

It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. I'm loving Manchester City.

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had…

— Pep Guardiola

To score four times against an Italian team when you trail 2-0 is a big deal.

— Pep Guardiola

If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Pep Guardiola

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

— Pep Guardiola

I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

— Pep Guardiola