Rafael Benitez Quotes

• We don't have any problems, apart from the problems we have.

  Rafael Benitez

  Football, Problem

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• The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Player, Differences

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• Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

  Rafael Benitez

  People, Mountain, Sugar

  "Roy Hodgson apologises to predecessor Rafael Benítez over Liverpool criticism". www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2010.

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• When I was at Valencia my wife said that we would win the league. She was right and to mark the occasion she asked me for a new watch. I bought her the watch, but then she said that we would win the UEFA Cup and that when we did she wanted another watch. Now she says that we will win the Champions League and that she will want an even more expensive watch. My wife has a lot of confidence and a lot of watches.

  Rafael Benitez

  Winning, Champions League, Wife

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• If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

  Rafael Benitez

  Riding, Littles, Red

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• As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

  Rafael Benitez

  Mistake, Player, People

  "Rafael Benitez" by Ned Temko, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• The champions are the team with the most points...if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

  Rafael Benitez

  Team, Mean, Champion

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• You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Waiting, Ends

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• If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

  Rafael Benitez

  Winning, Race, Car

  "Don't go to war with Rafa, Mike - help him make you a Newcastle hero" by Brian Reade, www.mirror.co.uk. April 26, 2017.

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• My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

  Rafael Benitez

  Daughter, Problem, Sometimes

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• Winning trophies has made me put on weight

  Rafael Benitez

  Winning, Weight, Trophies

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• Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Europe, England

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• As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

  Rafael Benitez

  Team, Coaching, Training

  "No more excuses: the buck stops with Rafael Benítez" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

  Rafael Benitez

  Things In Life, Corruption, Ifs

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• To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Running, Believe

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• How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

  Rafael Benitez

  Play, Wife, Five

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• You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

  Rafael Benitez

  Player, Trying, Done

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• When you have a run of games where you keep winning and winning, you know it must end.

  Rafael Benitez

  Running, Winning, Games

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• Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.

  Rafael Benitez

  Player, Choices, Quality

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• It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.

  Rafael Benitez

  Doctors, Years, Two

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