Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

When you are the manager, you want to win.

As a manager, it's the same as a player: I want to see how far I can get.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.

The more games I have as a manager the more I realise that there is only one thing that really matters - getting results and accumulating points.

As manager of Tianjin Quanjian every day, every week, I have to give our players everything I have.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

I want to be the best Blazer - ever.

I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.

I don't care what you do in life. To say that that year I was the absolute best, especially when you're in a team sport - and I have more of a personality that I wished I would've played an individual sport - to win a championship, to get 60 people and focused in one direction and do it over a seven-month period is phenomenal.

That is how I have been at any level, whether it was semi-pro at Dorchester Town or at Liverpool. I set myself targets. The mentality doesn't change.

The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.

It doesn't matter if I'm in a boardroom pitching to a group, attempting to perfect the latte heart, or stopping a running back on 4th and 2. If I'm passionate and willing to devote the time and effort to something; I'm unstoppable.

Being the player who wants to impact every game is what I've always tried to be.

If you work hard and you work for somebody who empowers you and challenges you, you'll be successful.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

I want to win the MVP. I feel like, at the end of the day, it might be an individual award, but when I play better, the team also does.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.