Coaching Styles Quotes

In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it's like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You're still in your shape for every drill.

Different coaches have different schemes, so for me, it's about learning and being able to adjust and adapt to these coaches. It fills your toolbox.

It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

I have been fortunate to work with many great coaches and also in different countries, and I have taken a bit from all of them - Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian football.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

There are different psychologies that different coaches have.

Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

But it's been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

There are coaches with habits you don't like, and you tell yourself, 'I don't want to be like that.' But there's no one way to success.

All the different coaches and styles of play I've seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.

I don't like to make comparisons, as it's different coaching a Spanish team to coaching a German or English team. Each country has their style, more or less, and within each country, they have different styles.

It's been tough throughout my career having different coaches and different philosophies, different style of plays throughout this entire time.

A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.

All coaches have different ways of working.

Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.