Alan Shearer Quotes

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.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

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.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

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

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

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

I can lead my team.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

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

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

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.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

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.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.