Keylor Navas Quotes

I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.

When you are working with likeminded people, then there are no pretences.

You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club.

Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

I think that I'm pretty much who you see onscreen. Are there times when I ask questions of people and have a sense of what their answer may be? Sure. I think that you can't deny that. But you still want to hear from that person, even though you may anticipate what they may say. I am as natural right now as I am when I talk to somebody in the Middle East. It's just trying to be a real person to them. So long as I can be as honest with myself when I make a movie like that, I can continue to be honest with you.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

I don't just want to talk to the choir. I want to sit down and be respectful of the people who are most unlike me, to get them to hear me and think. It doesn't mean you're going to change them right there, but just so they can hear you and what you're saying.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.