Jeff Fisher Quotes

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.

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

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

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

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X's and O's get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

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

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

The head coach is the chemist.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.