Patrick Mouratoglou Quotes

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

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.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

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're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

Every coach will have good and bad.

It's always important with a young one in your team that he needs to be comfortable in the position he plays.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

It is my job to help the players react better.

With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

Second seasons are always better. In the first year, I felt a little bit of pressure. Maybe sometimes I didn't play naturally. I didn't feel relaxed on the pitch when I was ready to try something. It's complicated to explain.

After I failed in my first two games, I did not expect to be picked. But on the eve of our match against Uttar Pradesh in Kanpur, Pravin Amre sir came to my room and gave me the confidence that I was playing.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

Coach Gase is one of the guys.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

There are times when new players replace injured players in the national squad. Since the new players don't have enough experience and match practice at the international level, they seldom play under a lot of pressure.