Nate Robinson Quotes

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

Nothing turns me off faster than a guy being unkind.

If you're mean to a gentle man, it makes your meanness worse.

Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn't want to listen.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

I know it didn't always go so well under Mark Hughes but it wasn't as if he didn't give me a chance or anything. He really did.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

It is difficult to adapt to Van Gaal. I had a couple of rows with him.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.