Antonio Conte Quotes

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

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.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

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

I could have coached better.

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.

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?

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

More eyes on the court is better than just two eyes. There's always a time for one voice. But when the guys are working, I believe in those guys working and making the players better. Hands-on.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

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.