Quotes About Coach

Jose Mourinho is a great coach. I would really like to work with him, and I once came close. He knows what weapons to use against teams, and he has won everything.

I learned a lot about the prep Monday through Wednesday with my coach.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.

Cologne was my big team, my favourite team. I trained one week in Cologne, and they asked me to sign for Cologne. At 17 or 18, the coach asked me to go the first-team training ground. I was lucky to have that coach.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Micky Adams took me in initially as youth coach and I'll always be grateful to Port Vale giving me my first chance to manage.

In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.

I am like all Portuguese people in that I admire Mourinho a lot.

I don't think people saw me as a coach. But as a player I concentrated a lot on playing the game and I was always interested in the thinking side of football and speaking to managers about why they would pick a certain formation or play people in certain positions.

It's extremely important to convey joy and have enthusiasm and positivity as a coach.

Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.

Honestly, Thibs is a dog. He's a guy that is an extreme competitor and very aware of everything that's going on. Takes each possession like it's our last, and really coaches with the type of intensity and passion that you want from a coach.

I'm not ruling out the possibilities of being an 'Ultimate Fighter' coach.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

If you want to work as a coach for longer term you need consistency, trust in the club and also the environment around the club.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

There's a lot of guys in the NBA; it's about finding the right fit, a coach that has some trust in you that will play you night in and night out, consistently. Trying to find a right fit is the tough part.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

It's really different without the fans, because there is less atmosphere, no screaming after every corner or chance. But the positive is you can communicate with each other. You can speak with each other. You can hear what the coach is screaming on the touchline.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

My opinion of Mourinho changed when he became my coach. He was always clear and correct to me.

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.