Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

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

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

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

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

When you're leading, don't talk.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.