Gerardo Martino Quotes

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

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.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

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 coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.