Michael Laudrup Quotes

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.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

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.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

I thought I could go into Cardiff, but different clubs have different cultures, different playing styles and philosophies. I'm more suited to the other jobs I've had.

Any new coach takes about six months to adjust to the system, and players also need time to understand his methods.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

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.

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

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

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

Jurgen Klopp is actually more active on the sidelines than some of his colleagues. For us players, this is very motivating. He gives us extra energy on the pitch through his coaching.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

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.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

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.