Marco Silva Quotes

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

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

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

We have to talk about the players we have.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

You make smart, educated decisions that are best for your football team.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

But it's been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

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.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.