Wojciech Szczesny Quotes

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I am very lucky that Julen Lopetegui gives me total freedom to move where I like.

In club football, Jurgen very much does everything, and we follow. We listen, and we follow him.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

Popovich is always talking about team.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.

You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

I had a tremendous one season playing for Coach Kubiak, and I have nothing but great things to say about him as a person and a coach.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

Every coach talks to their players. Imagine not talking to Lionel Messi - that would be ridiculous.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

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

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.