Olivier Giroud Quotes

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

You're getting to know these guys as people, and as players. You have to develop a rapport. They give me a lot of respect.

My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you've been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

For me, it is important to stay close to my players.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be more part of the team and where the coach really trusts me. At Schalke it wasn't really like that.

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

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

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

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.