Enes Kanter Quotes

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.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

There are people, coaches, and players who fit in certain places. All players don't fit into all teams, and not every manager can manage every team.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don't want to have guys that don't feel comfortable in the locker room.

All it takes is one guy to change a locker room. To change the complexity or nature of an atmosphere.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

Popovich is always talking about team.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

The kit man is the heartbeat of the football club, really. He knows the lads. He's usually local, a fan, and he's got his finger on the pulse of the dressing room.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.

Every team communicates differently. Every verbiage is different on each team.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

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.

There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

People seem to love or hate Mourinho, but players tend to love him.

Its strong management that makes players feel comfortable.

Chris Paul, president of the NBA Players Association, can lead an entire league but can't lead his team when it really counts.

I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.

I've always felt that, in the past, there has been a teacher-pupil relationship between the management and the players. But the best teams are run in such a way that the players have a voice.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.