Jill Ellis Quotes

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

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.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

Anytime you get to play a team twice, you have a feel for what they do and how they play.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

Being a soccer coach is just like being a general who has the responsibility of guiding his troops into battle. If a coach acts too emotionally on the bench, his players cannot focus on their game on the field.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

The fans just see what's going on on the field, but there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

We take more risks at United than the majority of teams but the manager wants us to play.

You want to play a whole game, but in the preseason you've got to be smart.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

I think when you come off the bench, you know you're going to play, but you don't know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it's kind of different.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.