Douglas Costa Quotes

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

Harry Redknapp is a fantastic manager. He knows how to talk to players. You need that belief from your own manager. He tells you just to go out there and do your thing. That is what Harry has got more than anyone else.

I believe I have demonstrated the ability to coach and work well under pressure.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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.

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.