Luis Enrique Quotes

I want to teach the young people the way I see football. The way I eat, the way I am in training.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with.

Since Carlo Ancelotti has arrived, he had emphasised hard work and intensity, and now that is what Real Madrid are associated with. He has playing experience, which makes him different to other coaches.

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

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

Everyone has his own form, and I never had any problems with Mourinho.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

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.

Van Gaal is the best coach I've had. We've got a very special relationship.

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

The best coach I have ever worked with is certainly Jose Mourinho. He has an unparalleled passion.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.