Chris Wilder Quotes

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

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.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

I've got no interest in justifying myself to a player of mine.

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries.

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

For me the relationship you have with the coach is very important.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

I've developed a lot under Jurgen Klopp. I am very grateful to him, and it is a lot of fun to work with him.

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.