Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.

When your teammates trust you to make the right play, your confidence is building as every game goes on.

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

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

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

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?

It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.

Every player has their challenge to help the team. They all have a challenge individually and collectively to improve.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

It is important to understand what your team can do.

We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

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