Massimiliano Allegri Quotes

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

It's difficult to gel players.

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.

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.

I have had so many team-mates who have been technically better than me.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

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

Sometimes keeping a squad together can improve spirit and with it performances.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

When great teams meet, there is never a problem with concentration.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

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

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.