Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

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.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

The head coach is the chemist.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.

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

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

I don't think, in international cricket, there is a need for coaching. The real coaching is to recognise your players' strengths and weaknesses. You always remain positive with your players.

My objective is to coach the national team.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.