Gerardo Martino Quotes

I started out wanting to coach football.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

Every coach will have good and bad.

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.