Quotes About Players

When you educate and develop your players, it is important they recognise you are sometimes crazy and a child and want to play football. Even though I am a manager, there will always be a good relationship with them. They know I am not only the guy who tells them ideas but that I can also be a crazy child as well - and that is important.

Maybe defenders don't always get the recognition like the other players get.

Among players, coaches, people who know football, yes I feel I get recognition.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

Arsenal prepare the players in the best way. They pay attention to every detail. We are able to recover optimally during our flights. The food and the service, everything's geared perfectly to each other.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

As part of their recovery after a match, you want players to stay in the cold water for as long as they can, but naturally, they want to get out. You might have races or games in order to keep them engaged.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.

I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players.

There's no question that I've made mistakes along the way when you look at recruiting in terms of evaluations of players or character in an instance or two.

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.

Recruiting is always a snow-ball effect because when you get really good players and they like it, the other players want to play with them.

While I believe in second chances and giving players an opportunity for redemption, I also believe that playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.

We have to be careful with time-wasting, the behaviour of the players. There are a lot now who are complaining during the game. We have to think about only the captain able to talk to the referee, not everybody, because we're losing a lot of time.