Nigel Pearson Quotes

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

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

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

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

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

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

The team evolves over time, and players need replacing.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

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.

My objective is to coach the national team.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

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

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.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

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.

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

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.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

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

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.