Harry Winks Quotes

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

Teams do not make their debut in the first XI - individuals do - but it is the team that enables the individual to get the best out of himself. Football IQ, I call it, understanding roles and the team structure.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don't care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

I really think your roster and your personnel dictates your style of play. When you have David West and Roy Hibbert does it make sense to play spread pick-and-roll game when you have those abilities inside?

In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a 'star' - not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. - at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

Obviously when the players are performing well in training, they will have a chance to play.

I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

It's not common for your best player to also be your most unselfish player.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

You can put the players on the pitch but they always move and systems change. I think, though, that Messi has to be a special case and that the other nine outfield players should support him. But one player on his own is not going to win you the World Cup.

In training camp, you know what each person is doing.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.