Steve Clarke Quotes

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

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

Every player has their challenge to help the team. They all have a challenge individually and collectively to improve.

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

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

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.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

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

I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.