Thomas Tuchel Quotes

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

Rafa Benitez - man with huge experience who knew how the club operated - could not get the results Real wanted and couldn't walk away from the fights that erupted in the dressing room and the boardroom.

Sometimes a new coach can find it not easy.

You don't just come in and say, 'Bam, I'm mature; I'm the leader.' It took time for me to grow into this and learn how to talk to certain players and how to handle certain situations.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

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 never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

My job is to protect my guys.