Edgar Davids Quotes

The head coach is the chemist.

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.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

Since Carlo Ancelotti has arrived, he had emphasised hard work and intensity, and now that is what Real Madrid are associated with. He has playing experience, which makes him different to other coaches.

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.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

Ancelotti showed in the past, that he can work with different teams and different players.

My objective is to coach the national team.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

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

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

I like Mourinho a lot. He has a good relationship with fans, and he always takes responsibility for his players.

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

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

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

I know I could be a goalkeeper coach - I feel I am better suited to be a manager.