Sean Dyche Quotes

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

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

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

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

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

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

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

My goal is to play a lot, more often, and to be a leader.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

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.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.