Gennaro Gattuso Quotes

The job as a coach is difficult.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

To become a good coach, you need to win a lot.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

Football management is about managing people.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

It's difficult to be a coach.

I think I always naturally lead on the court by just working.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.