Toni Duggan Quotes

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

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

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

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

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

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

During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

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

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

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.