Petr Cech Quotes

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

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.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your 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.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

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

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

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.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

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.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

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

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.