Roberto Carlos Quotes

Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot - maybe too much - in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

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

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

Everyone knows that I had a lot of good coaches but one person was very important: Jupp Heynckes.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

Matt LaFleur's a great coach.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.