Mats Wilander Quotes

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

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

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

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

The most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that's their business.

The problem in Sweden is that, when the players are younger, they are not allowed to develop their own style and skills.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

As a young player, you need a lot of playing time to evolve.

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

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.