Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

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.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

Ancelotti showed in the past, that he can work with different teams and different players.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

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

I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.

Not head coach - Assistant would be very attractive, but I don't think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

You don't know a player until you coach him.

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.

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

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.