Mickey Arthur Quotes

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

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.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

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.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.