It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.
— Mauricio Pochettino
The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my complex answers, it's much better I have an interpreter to make sure nothing is misconstrued.
I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.
I always said anything is possible in football if you have faith and quality.
I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.
To be a player is so difficult.
I don't want to lie. Always, I want to be honest and I say,I don't think about tomorrow. I don't think about next season.'
I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.
When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, 'I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,' you say, 'OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?'
What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you're capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you're a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That's my objective in Tottenham.
I work with young people, and I know that we must be careful. Newspaper headlines, sudden notoriety, and important comparisons can lead to confusion.
Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.
For me, family and football are the most important things. They are in the same level.
I love it when the people celebrate when they beat you.
If you win, of course celebrate and show the fans you're happy - it's fantastic - but when you win a trophy, when you win something special.
To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.
It's important to have the opportunity to learn.
To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.
I'm someone who likes new things, likes change. But I also like challenges. I was a little bit of a prisoner to my challenge each time.
It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.
The most important thing is to explain day by day that life is very short, and we need to spend the day thinking and enjoying life. We can't been thinking too much and worrying about what is happening tomorrow.
When Real Madrid call you, you have to listen to them.
I feel very important at Tottenham, very comfortable, and I enjoy the journey a lot.
Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.
When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.
My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.
When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win - you play for something special. It's the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.
We have short memories in football.
The platform that we have created here in Tottenham is the most important, the platform we created between all the coaching staff - in the academy and the first team. The platform we created is more important than one person.
My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.
I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.
Always, you miss all the players when they are injured.
For me, Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world. I don't think he needs to show anyone that he is one of the best.
I am a person that likes to move on. I am the first to make mistakes in my life.
Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.
If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.
It is always in our dream to win, and you need to dream of bigger things.
What is going to happen tomorrow, I don't know, but I will always tell you 'football is football.' Football will put you in your place always.
It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.
I love to work and feel part of the project: to share and create something special.
I am a person who is always positive.
You cannot guess what happens in the future.
If my ambition in Tottenham is only to win the Carabao Cup or FA Cup, with all the respect for that, I think my ambition does not match the ambition of a club like Tottenham.
We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.
I don't have social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, nothing. I don't receive information. That's why my head, my face, looks younger than I really am.
After games, my wife gives me a lot of advice and criticism. Sometimes, I am upset. I say, 'Why do you advise me this?' But I like it, because to listen to a different point of view is always important. You can find a different position or point of view that can help you to be more creative.
I always remember being competitive. From the beginning, with my brothers, with my friends, playing at school, everything - in everything I was involved in.
Obviously, if you win a trophy, like I won when I was a player, it's a moment to celebrate. For me - this is my mentality, and I don't want to say it's right or wrong - I love to celebrate in private and not make it public. I love to celebrate the things with your team-mates.
Rumours are rumours and always happen, not only at Tottenham but every team.
Always it is important to improve.
