Pep Guardiola Quotes

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Not everything is seen that happens on the pitch - the teammate in a good position, where it might get dangerous, how a situation develops.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.

Whether a player rotates more or less depends on his form and his position. It's not the same for a center back as it is for a winger. Every player is different.

Balotelli can play as a striker, as a winger.

I wouldn't want to play as left forward if I normally play right-back.

Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he's looking at me for which position.

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

We have new technology that allows us... After we've blocked it, all the actors usually run over to the monitor and we can see the hallways and what's there. But I find it difficult, because you're in such a large room and you feel so small and inadequate. There's so much space around you and actors always want a prop or something just to make it comfortable.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

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.

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.