Toni Kroos Quotes

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

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

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.

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.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

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

A good coach is someone who can break down players, someone who is good with angles, setting up points on the court.

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.

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

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

There is no doubt I'm learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have on the training ground are fantastic, and I'm learning a lot from them every day.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

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.

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

Everybody in Ajax plays 4-3-3, from seven years old, so they get used to the system. It's all about being a total player.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

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