Alex Scott Quotes

The Secret Service today is awash in managers, not leaders.

I've had five managers, and I've played with all of them.

The managers I've known all had their own specific way of working.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

I've managed stations.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

It is difficult to adapt to Van Gaal. I had a couple of rows with him.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

I've heard stories about keepers who couldn't stand each other. Everyone in football has a big ego and we all think we should play. But it is not up to me that I or the other goalie is not playing.

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.

Football management is about managing people.

Of course every manager has a different mentality, different philosophy.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

Every manager goes through bad times.

A rookie coach must be supported by a very strong structure and not get burned.

Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.

Managing people is no different wherever you are.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.