Rafael Benitez Quotes

The most important thing is that you find a way to bring your thoughts into the hearts of the players. The tactical details are important because they can make a big difference.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

I think, in international cricket, your management is about motivating players.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

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

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.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

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.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?