Quotes About Players

Arsenal are a really big club.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

I have always said that great players must always play for the great clubs.

I would never speak about players at other football clubs - I think it's wrong. It's not my style.

When you are in the biggest clubs, and you are fighting for the best players with a lot of money, maybe the work of a sporting director is not so difficult.

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.

What is good with the English clubs is that they respect the old players.

I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: 'How are we going to win the game?' And they'll follow that plan.

Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.

To have a manager who has worked with top players, top strikers, who have played in my position, it's always nice to know that when he is giving me information, he's coached these players before so it's important I take it on board.

Coaches are always important for players.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.