Christian Horner Quotes

Inzaghi is certainly the coach I got along best with.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

Sledging makes things interesting. There are no robots playing. They are humans who want to perform well for the country. So when stakes are so high, emotions will take over. Sometimes sledging gets the best out of you.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I genuinely have always had support from all of my team. I have never had any complaints from them.

I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

I can only think of about four players who I do not have anywhere from a good to a great relationship with.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

It's up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

When you work with Mourinho, you have to know that the group, the collective is above the individual.

Far from being a mere consequence of winning, strong team spirit is an essential ingredient of sporting success; it comes before, not afterwards.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.

I have the same relationship with all my team-mates. For me, all my team-mates are the same.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

When I came in at United, I'd seen what the manager set, how the players lived their lives, how they trained, how they lived with the expectation and all sorts, playing three games a week at that level. And that is when I thought 'woah - this is different, this is something else.'

To play for almost two months without your manager is not easy.

You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit of winning, winning, winning... after you win, you don't want to stop winning.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.