Ronald Koeman Quotes

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.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

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.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

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

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

I am a coach. I don't have to have a title. I have five children that need guidance.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

I'd like to manage someone, a young talent that maybe doesn't have the mic skills.

I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.