Louis van Gaal Quotes

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.

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.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

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

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

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

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.

The head coach is the chemist.

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

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

When I first became a head coach in Toronto, I was more of a dictator, wanted to do everything, all the development, defense, offense, whatever it was.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

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

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

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

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

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

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

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