Gerard Pique Quotes

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

I think long-term, not short-term.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

If we want football to be a sport that is no longer a sport, then use VAR on every incident. However, if we get to March, where every point becomes decisive, then games can last three or four hours.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Everyone talks about VAR, which is great. It will help the referees no end. But if you've got VAR in place and VAR becomes the ref, I'm not sure that's good for the game.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

I love playing football. I love being happy. I love playing games. I think that's going to be the ultimate deciding factor in where I go.

If I sit here and say I don't agree with VAR, I'd be lying.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to decide what you want. Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to have a career? Those are three very different things.

Experience helps you read certain situations better and make less mistakes in terms of behavior.

We've all had meetings with the referees. We're all clear with how VAR works, and ultimately, you want the rules to be fair.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

There are expectations in everyone's lives. It might be small or big, but then you cannot forget to prioritise what is important and try to focus when it is really needed.

VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.

Clearly, I'm for the VAR.

I've talked to my coaches, and I don't even know if I would go to 165. I might go to 175.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

People act on what they want more often than what they need.

I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right