Michael Laudrup Quotes

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

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

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.

I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

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.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

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

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.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.