Dwane Casey Quotes

The head coach is the chemist.

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.

I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.

In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

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

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

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.

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.

Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

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

Every coach has his own philosophy.

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

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.

From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

The impact of Luis Enrique has been very positive. He has very clear ideas about football and we've absorbed them.

I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.