Diego Simeone Quotes

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

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

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

I don't think, in international cricket, there is a need for coaching. The real coaching is to recognise your players' strengths and weaknesses. You always remain positive with your players.

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

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

I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

Every coach will have good and bad.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

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

I think every coach brings their own personality.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

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

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

I started out wanting to coach football.