Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

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.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

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.'

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

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

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.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

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.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

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

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

It was a really empowering thing playing with Golden State, because they let the players play and they let the players communicate and they let the players decide things.

I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.