Massimiliano Allegri Quotes

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

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

Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

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

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.

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

It is my job to work with the players we have and try to improve them as a team and move the country forward.

That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

I think there is no better way for our players to improve and learn to perform under pressure than playing regularly with India.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

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.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.