Ross Barkley Quotes

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

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

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

Obviously I need a coach, but it's not the main thing in my team. I can play good even without a coach.

You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

Football brings changes and different direction in your life. It's about how you adapt to it and move on.

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

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.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.