Matt Busby Quotes

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

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

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

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

For me, as a coach, it is important to put together a team that not only blends but finds the right balance between defence and offence.

As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things figured out and move on to the next series.

You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

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.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

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.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.