Quotes About Players

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

Obviously it's my job, a coach's job to start giving the players a platform and start preparing, start planning.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

New York basketball's been pretty good over the years.

That's a beautiful thing about India, they got such a big pool of players to call upon. If somebody gets injured, the replacements are generally pretty good.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

I don't think there was a danger of chaos at Arsenal. We have a fantastic manager who knows how to run the club. All the players believe in what he's doing.

You know, times change. That's why there are so many debates about who people think the greatest players of all time are.

I'm a huge Bulls fan. I like an emotional backstory while watching sports. In my mind, all the players on the Bulls are really nice, decent guys. Especially that Derrick Rose.

The thing that is really important is that the players have the drive to do something more with their football. If you have that, you can make a decent player into a very good player.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

I'd like to think I'm always going to defend our players.

Academy wingers always pick up the ball and then cut inside or lay it off. No one runs at players like I do, or gets to the back stick and overpowers a defender.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

Mourinho was always very strong for his players, and you needed to deliver for him. For me, it was good.

For me pressure is positive. The players need to know they need to deliver results because we have massive support but we also need time because Rome was not built in a day.

I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.

I think Ancelotti is a great coach who has a great relationship with the players, but is also very demanding of them.

This is a demanding league, so we've gotta be demanding on our players. They need to understand that.

In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.

All the truly great players have had to demonstrate their importance and value in the most difficult competition of all.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

I think the game will always be dependent on the players that are at its most elite level at that time.