Bum Phillips Quotes

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

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

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X's and O's get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.

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

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

I've worked with some brilliant coaches, and I've taken a real interest in all the methods they use and the choices they make. And I can tell you that Moyes's sessions and the things he says in his team meetings are spot on.

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

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.

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

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.