Marco Silva Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

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

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

Every time I get on the court, I want to push my teammates to be better as a leader and lead by example.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

We could all use more coaching.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.