Paul Scholes Quotes

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Every coach will have good and bad.

I'd been at Chelsea for a while and progressed quite quickly until I got to the first team, and then it was different. I was used to playing every minute of every game, but when you get to that level, the step up is massive. There are world-class players in front of you, and no matter how talented you are, breaking in is difficult.

Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.

I made my England debut against Japan in 2013. Hope Powell, our manager at the time, always demanded the best. She had quite a stern approach... She'd look at you over her glasses sometimes.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

I don't think football management is easy.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there's also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come.

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.

Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

There are times when new players replace injured players in the national squad. Since the new players don't have enough experience and match practice at the international level, they seldom play under a lot of pressure.

You need to be very critical of yourself. There are a few very good managers who can make players better individually. Most managers think about the team process - and so you have to improve things on your own.

I thought I could go into Cardiff, but different clubs have different cultures, different playing styles and philosophies. I'm more suited to the other jobs I've had.

Managers and players at different clubs, it's difficult to compare.