“"For me, Pellegrini is one of the best coaches. He has a gift. He has a gift for reading the player, for reading their environment, for reading the moment, for interpreting which player responds well to being pushed... If you use the same technique with another player, instead of empowering them, you sink them. Knowing who to talk to more, who to talk to less..."
“"I saw it during the Málaga period (keep in mind that Málaga had just come from the Second Division, and the following year they made 17 or 18 top-level signings)... To bring together so many new players with so many egos and so much experience, and in that same year to get us to perform as a team... Everyone there already knew how to play football, but you don't always make a team. What made Málaga, in my opinion, achieve such early success? He managed to build a group."
“"I entered the office and saw four cardiologists, not in white coats, sitting opposite me. I sat next to the president, and he subtly shook my hand, and I got a bit nervous and didn't understand anything. And that's when he told me that, following the tragedies we had experienced in football, with Antonio and Jarque, Sevilla was the first club to conduct examinations, especially regarding cardiac issues. I had a heart murmur, which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be an aneurysm in the aortic valve that could have caused me to collapse instantly in any 10-meter run, and he told me that football was over for me. I told him no, that I was as strong as an ox, that I felt nothing, that it was impossible."
