If they don't accept they are not ready for the challenge, and we wouldn't want them. John accepted the first challenge last year, accepted this season already. That is a guarantee the fire is there, if the fire is there, this (next) contract will not be the last contract he signs.

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You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

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In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

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You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

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A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

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You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

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The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

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I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

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We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

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Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

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One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

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Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

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Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

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When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

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With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

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As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

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I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.

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Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

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There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

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It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

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If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.

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