Kevin Pietersen Quotes

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

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.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

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

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Of course managers win ball games.

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.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.