Fabio Capello Quotes

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.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

When it comes down to it, it's about putting the players on the field that will be the best 11.

I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

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.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

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

That's football, it's our job not just to name the starting XI but during the match as well.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

It's up to the manager where and how every player should play, but I think every player should be comfortable in that position.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

The head coach is the chemist.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

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.

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 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 think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

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

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

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

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

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