Quotes by Didier Deschamps - Page 2

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.
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Evolve
Fifteen
Practice
Correct
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We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.
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Condition
Frame
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We can't really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward.
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Move Forward
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You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.
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Collective
Discussions
Guide
Overnight
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Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.
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Deeper
Time Good Always
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There are always crucial, decisive players in every side who make the difference and do not necessarily depend on others.
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Crucial
Decisive
Depend
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When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.
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Championship
World Cup
Best World Your
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Benzema is a team player, he is very important for us. He always wants to score with us, but scoring is not everything to him.
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Scoring
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Look, I was a water carrier, I don't reject my image. I didn't have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.
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Carrier
Pretension
Water
Image
Match
Reject
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For me, the goal is to make the most of each player, play them in the position they feel best in. And then repeat, repeat, repeat.
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Best Me Feel
Repeat
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I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.
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Obliged
Accept
Crushing
Defeats
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At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.
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Highest Level
Solid
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He might not be very tall, but he's very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.
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Solutions
Wins
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Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.
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Minimum
Select
Debates
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Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can't fight that, I have to adapt and change.
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Cards
Adapt
Change Time Together
Nowadays
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We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.
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Calm
Concentration
Missing
Organised
Titles
Truth Is
World Cup
Cup
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When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.
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Hard Times
Relax
Dig
Trend
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Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.
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Accepts
Good Competition Better
Element
Open Door
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My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.
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Boiling
Departure
Regret
Remains
Immediate
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The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.
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Crucial
Adapt
Disposal
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Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.
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Aggressive
Conditions
Management
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Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.
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Big Screen
Coaches
Possession
Slow Motion
Stripping
Thankless
Automatically
Card
Lineup
Motion
Tackle
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Messi plays in Spain, we know he makes a difference, but if you've played against him then maybe you're aware of situations that can repeat on the pitch. But Messi is Messi, with his talent, he may send a spark with very little and make the difference. He is unpredictable.
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Messi
Spain
Repeat
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It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.
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Beads
Calm
Dripping
Stay Calm
Sweat
Good Face Your
Forehead
Puts
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Managing players is harder these days because of the arrival of new technology. They are all using it in their spare time so they become more isolated and selfish. They share less, they talk less. They have apps, their phones and the Internet but they are less used to talking to people.
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Apps
Isolated
New Technology
Phones
Selfish
Spare Time
Arrival
Managing
Spare
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You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.
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Born
Character
Force
Innate
Leader
Natural
Wake Up
Authentic
Develops
One Morning
Some People
Wake
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