Luis Enrique Quotes

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

We will never play for a draw, as it doesn't make sense. Come on, you make a 0-0 plan, you get one goal after five minutes, and it's finished. The players look and say, 'Now what?'

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

Every manager has their own way of approaching games.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

I only ever call up the best players, or at least the players who are the most suited to the way I wish to play.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

Zidane is not a coach, but he is a teacher.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

I've been with some great head coaches, but also some great assistant coaches, too.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

I don't think football management is easy.

Sometimes when your coach draws something up, you just kind of go with it.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.