Frank Vogel Quotes

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Coach OB is fun to play for. He's very tough on you. He wants you to be successful.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.

We're dealing with men here. What we're trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we're all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players' respect is, do you make them a better football player?

The most important thing for me is to value the players and try to improve them individually in order to improve the team.

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it's different - and that's why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.