Unai Emery Quotes

"For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve."

"The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow."

"It was very risky and quite courageous to write a book about winning when I was still to win my first title. But for me, the one who possesses a winning mentality isn't necessarily the one who wins in the end but the one who wants to win the most."

"We need to push. We need to have ambition. We need to have desire to improve every day."

"A smile is better when you win."

"For every game we play, I might have spent 12 hours working on the video alone. In an hour, the players have to understand everything you have seen in 12 hours."

"I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the sky, to feel the atmosphere growing."

"My concentration with players is the next match, focus only to work for the next match and how we can win."

"I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win."

"I know how you can feel when you are playing under pressure."

"You need confidence to play under pressure."

"I'm not the kind of coach who says, 'Let's do a few piggy-in-the-middle exercises and go home for lunch.'"

"I was a second-division B player, and I've had to work very hard. I tell the players, 'The moment we stop working hard on this, as soon as we stop dedicating hours to this, we'll fall.'"

"PSG has got a solid project. Neymar wants to improve and grow with the club."

"In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion."

"I need to learn to smile more."

"I am very demanding of myself."

"I need to continue reading books, and I like to learn about different people in the world, different people with success in and outside of football."

"I was the coach in Valencia, and this was when Pochettino was finishing his playing career. And we met in Valencia watching the Chile training sessions. And a few months later, he took over as coach of Espanyol."

"There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us."

"My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results."

"My first message is clear. Enjoy the challenges of each match."

"I respect a lot the players: their hair and their hair colour."

"Our demands are very high, very great, but I want to ask every player every day to give us more."

"In my career, I do not stop for news when it's not true."

"When I'm asked to define football, I always talk about emotions, the heart, love. It's something you feel deep down inside when you enter a stadium, raise your eyes, and look at the stands, the fans coming in."

"Wherever I've been, I've tried to soak up the essence of the club, the town, and to transmit that to the players."

"When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions."

"I live football as passion and emotion."

"My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you've been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do."