Claudio Ranieri Quotes

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.

Coaching the national team would be great.

My objective is to coach the national team.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

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.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

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

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

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

For me, I think you can coach guys in martial artsm, and wrestling can be one aspect of it, but I have no desire to be an NCAA wrestling coach again. It was one of the worst coaching jobs I have ever had.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

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.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

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

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.