Managerial Style Quotes

Football is full of different characters but there are perhaps none who have a split personality quite like Jose Mourinho, as I can testify from personal experience.

Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I made my England debut against Japan in 2013. Hope Powell, our manager at the time, always demanded the best. She had quite a stern approach... She'd look at you over her glasses sometimes.

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.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

At Shakhtar I was already established and was comfortable with the way the team played.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.

Allegri is an easy coach to understand, as he doesn't like to work with stupid people.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

Everyone has his own form, and I never had any problems with Mourinho.

I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

Well, every manager has to take his personality into the job that he does, but irrespective of that personality you have to be aggressive when you need to be.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Jurgen Klopp is Shankly reincarnated in a German body, because he gets the people.

Sarri's football can work in England.

I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.

I never had problems with Klopp.

I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.