Mark Hughes Quotes

Each audience is different.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Every team needs leaders, but not just one or two.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

You can't manage every footballer the same. Of course you'd love to, but it doesn't work like that. We're not robots.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.

You have to take each player as a separate case and understand how to deal with them, which is not easy when you start in the job and are confronted with a player telling you he has a gambling or a drink problem.

What is important is to find the best solution for your players.

I think Mr. Ancelotti is a coach who speaks to the players a lot, not only as a team but also with the individual player. He tries to talk to you and wants to make sure to explain to you what he wants you to do on the pitch. That's important, and if you listen to it, you're going to learn a lot.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

Harry Redknapp is a fantastic manager. He knows how to talk to players. You need that belief from your own manager. He tells you just to go out there and do your thing. That is what Harry has got more than anyone else.

An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

Players' moods change on a daily basis, so it depends how you find your players, and up to you to get the best out of them.

The players on the team are the reason why we win. You don't have to treat them all identically; they're not going to be all the same. Your ability to lead and motivate those guys differently is important.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

Then you have to convince the players and get them on board with what you are doing, and after that you can start to build. But the identity is the foundation for everything.

For this group, because we have so many big personalities, I think the manager also has to have a big personality but in a way that sort of knows how to deal with everything.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.