Gareth Southgate Quotes

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

You always want all good players at your team.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

The head coach is the chemist.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

Obviously, it's important for any team that wants to be really successful to try to have the best players that they possibly can in all positions, and I think Alisson is definitely one of the best in the world in his position.

The most important thing is that Spain have a good team no matter who plays. It is always nice to see your name spoken but the important thing is that the national team does well. But having good players for every position is important because there are always injuries, drops of form.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

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

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

When you're paying millions of dollars for somebody to coach your team, you can find somebody good.