Hayden Fry Quotes

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

We have to talk about the players we have.

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

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

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.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

To get the best out of any player you need to play him in his best position, it's as simple as that.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

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

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

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

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

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.

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.