Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

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

You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

It takes time to settle in and learn a new formation and style of play.

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

I've always enjoyed playing the shortest form of the game and I relish the opportunity to develop my leadership skills as England's Twenty20 captain.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

When you have got a new manager you have got to impress and get used to what he wants really quickly.

I always speak with all the players during the week before every game we play, because it's important for them to know what I think and for me to see how they are before the game.

On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I'm loud.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.