Quotes by Antonio Conte - Page 2

For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.
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Expensive
Central
Defender
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I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.
Antonio Conte /
Demand
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When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.
Antonio Conte /
Solution
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Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.
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Important
Player
Squad
Together
Over
Important Thing
Lose
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I want to protect my club. I want to try to protect my players. I want to try to protect my fans. Also, I want to try to protect the Premier League.
Antonio Conte /
Premier League
Premier
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When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
Antonio Conte /
Team
Build
Coach
Liked
Italy
Manager
Tailor
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I try to dress well. Not just now at Chelsea, but all my career, at my clubs and the national team in Italy, I like to wear a nice suit on the touchline.
Antonio Conte /
Chelsea
Clubs
National Team
Italy
Suit
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You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
Antonio Conte /
Finish
Opponent
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When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.
Antonio Conte /
Enthusiasm
Possibility
Waste
Manager
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Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.
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Pressure
Speak
Thinking
Times
Off
Push
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My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.
Antonio Conte /
Deserve
Satisfaction
Solution
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Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.
Antonio Conte /
Applaud
Shirt
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As a player, I was very lucky to have so many good managers in my career. I remember the first two at Lecce: Eugenio Fascetti and Carlo Mazzone. They were very important for me and my growth.
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Managers
Good Managers
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Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d'Or.
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Best World Never
Defender
Won
Goalkeeper
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The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.
Antonio Conte /
Defeat
Hunger
Stronger
Suffer
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I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.
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Anticipate
Too Late
Condition
Discover
Prepare
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I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.
Antonio Conte /
Characteristics
Right Way
Right Balance
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Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.
Antonio Conte /
Possibility
Hopes
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Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It's simple.
Antonio Conte /
Champions League
Expensive
Champions
Title
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I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It's important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong - the right movement.
Antonio Conte /
Session
Explain
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I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.
Antonio Conte /
Attacking
Tactics
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We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition. But at the same time, sometimes you have to compliment your opponent. You must be honest and accept the result.
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Compliment
Best Time Great
Opponent
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After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.
Antonio Conte /
Analysis
Blame
Minutes
Session
Training
Video
Good Bad Sometimes
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When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
Antonio Conte /
Chelsea
Footballer
Club
Compete
Manager
Reach
Targets
Teams
Title
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Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.
Antonio Conte /
Chelsea
Be Happy
Bench
Repeat
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I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
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Important Things
Adapt
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I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
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Earning
Importance
Reflection
Manager
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In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
Antonio Conte /
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Lifestyle
Zone
Abroad
Different Language
Habits
Italy
Preparations
Wastes
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Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.
Antonio Conte /
Work Your Important
Be Happy
Most Important Thing
Task
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