Antonio Conte Quotes

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

It is my job to work with the players we have and try to improve them as a team and move the country forward.

You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

The fans are not in the locker room, they're not at the practice facility, they're not in the office with us. They want wins; we understand that.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

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

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

What I like is to bring the best team for the fans, and if we have that then we need to perform and we need success, but that is what I like and what I have had all my life in football.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

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

I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

Real Madrid needs a coach that knows the club and understands the values that it represents.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.