Jason Witten Quotes

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

When you start the game, coaches will tell you to do stuff in a particular way, and kids do that. But the moment you start first-class cricket, the coach needs to tell you, 'Try this, try that,' instead of, 'Do this, do that.' If you feel comfortable, you can take it; otherwise, leave it.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

But that's something I enjoyed. That's the game, the challenge, trying to think 'what am I am aiming to do here? Where do I want to pass the ball? What area do I want to get it in?' Then it's instinct... but that's just me, that's how I was made, that's my make-up.

Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

I've trained with some top players at Chelsea, but sometimes training is not enough.

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

I have always enjoyed thinking about playing patterns and I will undoubtedly continue to do so in front of the TV but to become a coach, to be thorough in football at all times, to prepare matches and training... I cannot imagine that I would find pleasure there and pleasure is essential in football.

I think there is no better way for our players to improve and learn to perform under pressure than playing regularly with India.

Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary? Yes. We fully understood what we needed to do as a defensive unit.

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