Glenn Hoddle Quotes

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

I always like to have the best players in my team.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

Obviously when the players are performing well in training, they will have a chance to play.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.

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.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

Of course managers win ball games.

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

I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

I hold head coaches accountable.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?