Michael Owen Quotes

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.

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

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

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

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

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.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

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

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol. The two coaches are actually very similar on the pressing side of the game. They spend a lot of time on that side of it, and it's a lot of hard work.

In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.

I always speak with all the players during the week before every game we play, because it's important for them to know what I think and for me to see how they are before the game.