Michael Laudrup Quotes

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

I don't like to compare coaches.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

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

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

It's been tough throughout my career having different coaches and different philosophies, different style of plays throughout this entire time.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

Jurgen Klopp is actually more active on the sidelines than some of his colleagues. For us players, this is very motivating. He gives us extra energy on the pitch through his coaching.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

My dad is a high school football coach in Texas so I've been around this game for a long time.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

My dream is to become an important coach of a great team, possibly Juventus. So, I'm observing and putting aside all the secrets of the various coaches that I have had to try to get the best out of myself.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

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

I'd had success with the junior England teams.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

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.