Pep Guardiola Quotes

Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.

I always want and expect more from players; they need challenging.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn't yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that's why I couldn't coach, 'cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone's not going to do what I want.

Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

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

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.