Gareth Southgate Quotes

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

You coach to your personality.

But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn't necessarily me.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

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

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

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.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

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.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Some players respond to shouting; some don't. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager's strengths to understand that some don't respond to that.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

Coach Gase is one of the guys.

I've always loved coach Brett Brown. I've been on record. I've been a fan of his for years.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.

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