Luka Modric Quotes

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

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

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.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Everyone knows that I had a lot of good coaches but one person was very important: Jupp Heynckes.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

Guardiola was a very special coach for me, the first when I was at Barcelona. He is a great coach, a lovely person, and I have very good memories of that time, but I would have liked to have had a full year with him.

I was fortunate to play under Thomas Schaaf at Bremen. And I played for Arsene Wenger. So I always felt, let's say, more responsible than others towards the manager and his succession.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

You don't know a player until you coach him.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

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.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

Working under Pep Guardiola, a chance like that doesn't come along too often. That's no disrespect to Mauricio Pochettino, but the people that Pep has worked with grow as players.

The mentor thing is overblown to me. I'm going to coach the player. I'm not going to have another player coach the player. They can be friends but when it comes to what I want him to do on the football field, that's my call, not another player's call.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

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