David Luiz Quotes

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

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.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

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

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

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

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

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

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.

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.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

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.

The head coach is the chemist.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

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

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.