Jordan Henderson Quotes

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

The mentor thing is overblown to me. I'm going to coach the player. I'm not going to have another player coach the player. They can be friends but when it comes to what I want him to do on the football field, that's my call, not another player's call.

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

I was fortunate to play under Thomas Schaaf at Bremen. And I played for Arsene Wenger. So I always felt, let's say, more responsible than others towards the manager and his succession.

The big players historically hold a lot of influence at Chelsea and while I would never doubt their attempts to win matches for the club, their levels undoubtedly change depending on how they feel about a manager at the time. They're either having him or they're not, and once they're not it spells borrowed time for the guy in charge.

Peter Stoger is very, very inspirational, communicating a lot, being open and approachable for the players.

Mourinho was always very strong for his players, and you needed to deliver for him. For me, it was good.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.

For this group, because we have so many big personalities, I think the manager also has to have a big personality but in a way that sort of knows how to deal with everything.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

The impact of Luis Enrique has been very positive. He has very clear ideas about football and we've absorbed them.