Frank Vogel Quotes

Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

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.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

At Liverpool, Jurgen pretty much does everything, and we just follow him. Of course, we've still got leaders within the group to implement his message, but more often than not, we listen and then just do what he says.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.