Malik Jackson Quotes

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

Some teams take a while to jell; some click right away.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

I've worked with so many teams, so many dressing rooms.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

When I was with the Bulls, I was very dysfunctional.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

Chemistry's a word that people who make hires and decisions say, 'Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!'

Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.

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.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.'

Antonio Conte helps you to grow because you can never get too comfortable or find a comfort zone.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.