Ronald Koeman Quotes

I will make it a point to voice my opinions. But if I am at fault, I will also apologise.

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I think I regret the impact on everybody. But I think I just maybe could have gone about it in a kinder way.

We all have the right to comment about each other.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

I really try my best to be the person I want other people to be.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.