Ryne Sandberg Quotes

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

You're getting to know these guys as people, and as players. You have to develop a rapport. They give me a lot of respect.

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

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.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

When your teammates trust you to make the right play, your confidence is building as every game goes on.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I've developed a lot under Jurgen Klopp. I am very grateful to him, and it is a lot of fun to work with him.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.