Diego Simeone Quotes

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

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

Not head coach - Assistant would be very attractive, but I don't think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

My objective is to coach the national team.

For this group, because we have so many big personalities, I think the manager also has to have a big personality but in a way that sort of knows how to deal with everything.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

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

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.