Declan Rice Quotes

I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.

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.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

Anyone who wants to be a centre-half would have to say that John Terry is a role model. Every centre-half in the game would agree with that. It is the way he leads the team and the way he reads the game.

The captaincy is about putting the team first, making sure the girls are happy - that they're comfortable with the processes we have, the way that the schedule is - to be able to challenge people on and off the pitch: not telling them off, but advising them.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

Organising the defence is something that is very important and I try to do my best every single day in training to make sure the lads get the information they need.

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

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

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.