Chuck Tanner Quotes

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

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.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

My captaincy model was characterised by two distinctive pillars. Proper identification of talent and then ensuring the young finds play fearless cricket.

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

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

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

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

Maurizio Sarri is one of those managers who can get the best out of players who aren't necessarily world class which he proved at Napoli.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.