Carlo Ancelotti Quotes

The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from relationships you have around the league throughout all the different interactions that you have.

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

When the team is doing well, individual performances don't count.

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

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

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

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.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

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

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

The postseason is more important than stats even though I do want them.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That's how it works for Yankees managers.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

My job is to improve the performance of the team game by game.

I know it didn't always go so well under Mark Hughes but it wasn't as if he didn't give me a chance or anything. He really did.

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

That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.

We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

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.

In any national team, the young players who have quality and the right mentality will stand out. And that's how it should be.