Phil Neville Quotes

Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.

Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

It's all about getting better. You don't want a coach that says, 'It's all right, it's all right,' and it's not all right.

The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.

There's always room for every player to improve.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

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

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

I think you should always aim for more.

I could have coached better.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.