Roberto Carlos Quotes

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

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.

You don't know a player until you coach him.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

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

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

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.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

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.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.

Mourinho is the best manager I've ever worked with.

Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that's a unique gift because you take an old-school guy that's used to coaching his way, he'd have a hard time coaching them cats now, but Kevin knows how, and he has the patience of Job.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.