Football Quotes by Tite

My job is to prepare the squad.

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Coaches are always looking to evolve.

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Coaches are overvalued.

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Winning or losing is part of the game.

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Pele is incomparable.

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I've never had any problem with Neymar. It's so easy to work with him.

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My thing is in the pitch, that's my concern.

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A team has to be prepared for the various situations in the game.

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Perhaps Argentina have been benefited by the talent of Messi.

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There's no news on talking about Messi's talent.

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Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

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Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil.

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Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.

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Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga's squad.

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The message to all Brazilians is that talent alone does not win the World Cup, it's about working hard.

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The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.

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Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

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The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we…

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I would go to a team where I always felt happy - as a person, as a human being and as a…

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Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

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The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.

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The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players…

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Neymar reassures you, because he brings unpredictability to your game. Because he will offer you an individual or collective solution that others…

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After I was invited to take over the Selecao, one of the first things I did was to call Marcelo and Thiago…

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Ancelotti's teams are more balanced. It's a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also…

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I respect opinions, I don't give opinions on them. I learnt to respect them. And I also have a very clear opinion…

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To play here and win here in Uruguay is a very difficult thing. Here you have a really strong atmosphere, energy. You…

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The Olympic Games provided players like Neymar, Marquinhos, Gabriel Jesus and Renato Augusto with some really valuable experience and ended up improving…

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You don't pay for winning like that - whether it's the World Cup, whether it's the Brazilian national team. Paying the price…

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I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I…

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When the national team plays there shouldn't be club games going on.

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It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.

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I demand Casemiro play the same role he plays at his club, Real Madrid.

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A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

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I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

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Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.

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Coutinho, Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar, Douglas Costa, Taison... they think fast and execute fast. The final third of the pitch requires that.

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Neymar has important and extraordinary records. And he also has a solidarity side that he will gradually show.

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When you demand performance, players raise their game technically. But if you put all the emphasis on results, that brings their level…

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I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never…

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