Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

I think if you don't give people the tools and the expectations for success, and yet hold them to some value, then you're difficult to work with.

When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.

Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

For me to be a better player, I need to play more games, and having a gaffer I know has great trust in me gives me the confidence I need to help me improve my game.

When I'm going good, there's not one guy who won't give me the ball.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

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

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.