Jason Kidd Quotes

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

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

We have to talk about the players we have.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

Early in the year, you never know how teams are going to be.

What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets if you have to do a rebuild. It was more that than Bron. Bron and I have always had an amazing relationship.

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

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

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.

The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.