Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

Football management is about managing people.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

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.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

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

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

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.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

It's a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.

I can lead my team.

Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

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.

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.