Fabinho Quotes

I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

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.

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

I'm really looking forward to working under Mourinho.

Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers with whom I have worked. I had a chance not only to have him as a coach but as a colleague, a friend, a big brother. I had a chance to learn from him, and he was open to receiving advice from me as well, even though I think he knew it all.

I was sad when Van Gaal left the national team, but I was also sad when Hiddink left.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Ancelotti showed in the past, that he can work with different teams and different players.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

Arsene Wenger was always the kind of manager whose belief in his team's qualities was steady as a rock and who approached matters with never-ending patience.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

When I arrived at Juventus as the manager in 1999, Antonio Conte was the captain of the club, an Italy international, and a player who had a lot of influence in the dressing room - and when I needed a leader in the team, he was the obvious choice.

Arsene Wenger is a good guy and a good coach.

For me, Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world. I don't think he needs to show anyone that he is one of the best.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

I always keep busy it gives you an opportunity to go through your coaching methods, your files, to see how other managers are working and re-educate yourself.