Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Quotes

Football coaches don't have real problems.

We have to talk about the players we have.

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

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.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

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.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

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

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

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

Every coach has his own philosophy.

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.

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.

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

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.