Maurizio Sarri Quotes

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

I don't think football management is easy.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

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

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

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

Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

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

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.

Initially when I was looking to enter football I was looking at clubs in Italy or France or Spain, a mid-table club where I could develop players and eventually sell them.

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.