Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
— Antonio Conte
The pressure, for me, is not important. I was born with pressure. The pressure is not important for me.
All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.
When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.
The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.
You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.
You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.
To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?
It's important to understand that sometimes you have players with great talent to score goals - these players are important.
You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.
Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.
During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.
When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.
When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.
It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.
When I am not working, my family are the most important.
I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.
It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.
Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.
When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.
When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.
I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
I don't want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.
In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
The most important thing for me is the work, my job, and then to go to my house to be satisfied with my work.
My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.
When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don't feel this pressure.
I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.
After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
It's important to win with style.
Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.
I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.
For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.
If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.
You don't create a big and strong team easily.
I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.
The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.
Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.
