Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

In Indiana, I knew the offense in and out. I knew spacing; I knew personnel. I knew the offense, how coach wanted to play me. So when I just wanted to take over and control the game, I could.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

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

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

I was struck by the ideas of Sarri, when you see them from outside you get a certain idea but when you are inside you understand the intelligence of a coach who has brought new ideas.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

It's up to the manager where and how every player should play, but I think every player should be comfortable in that position.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

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.

One thing that will never change as a manager is that there is so much game stuff and management stuff to deal with that you want good information.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

Pep is a super coach! He is excellent. He is the best at analysing an opponent and the concept of a game. I don't know what impact he had on German football, but he left a mark on all of us at Bayern because of how he analysed and educated the players in each position and the way he taught us to play.

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

I experienced great professionalism in Dutch football. I don't want to give a stereotypical view of them, but they are needy in terms of wanting to know exactly what the game plan is, what their role is, that information.

I think what Brendan Rodgers did was right; I thought it was successful. He was able to show that he was able to change several players, prove to everybody in the team that no-one's guaranteed a spot, rest a lot of key players, and at the same time walk away with a very reputable result.

There's a lot of buzz words in the business world these days - Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership - and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.

I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.

You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.