Ronald Koeman Quotes

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

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 train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.

It was important to be with a coaching staff that didn't just believe in my football ability.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

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

I cannot speak for other players, but it is always good when the manager comes to ask how you're feeling and makes you feel calm before you play the game.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

Every coach will have good and bad.

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

It's never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you're mid-season it's never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

I didn't get a training camp in Chicago. I was behind a lot in the plays, in the team's chemistry. Everything in the organization was going in a different direction.

So I don't see any stress from players or coaches with coaching during the matches, to be honest.

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.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.