Patrick Mouratoglou Quotes

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X's and O's get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

I train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.