Sean Dyche Quotes

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

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.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

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

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

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.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

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

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.