Louis van Gaal Quotes

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

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

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.

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

It's difficult to be a coach.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

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

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

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.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

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

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

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

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.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.