David de Gea Quotes

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.

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.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

A lot of people came up to me and said you need to trash talk. That's not me.

If someone drops a catch, and I get angry, will that catch come back to us? It won't. Therefore, it is better to be cool, because that helps in better performance.

My players know the 'fear' word or something like that does not go inside our dressing room. Never.

It is much easier to get over your mistakes when you know you have the confidence of your manager and your team-mates.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.

It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.