Sean Dyche Quotes

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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.

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

I worked under a lot of 'top-class managers at Spurs and had to take over as 'caretaker a couple of times when things were not going well. I know what's required.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

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.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I like being a leader in real life.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.