Claudio Ranieri Quotes

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

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.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

It's difficult to be a coach.

We don't have the money of the Manchester clubs or Chelsea. Arsenal builds its team through training, through recruiting players who can become something. Arsenal has less money than some other clubs, so we have to fight with other values.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

The job as a coach is difficult.

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

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

I don't think, in international cricket, there is a need for coaching. The real coaching is to recognise your players' strengths and weaknesses. You always remain positive with your players.

Mourinho is the best manager I've ever worked with.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.