Carlo Ancelotti Quotes

In my opinion, there's nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, 'This is going to be a touchdown.'

Of course managers win ball games.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

It's nice to get comfortable with the plays before the season starts.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.