Johan Cruyff Quotes

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, 'Why don't you run through the forest, through the trees?' Well, I've never seen a tree on a football field.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

As a player, I was always interested in tactics and how I can get better.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

I've trained with some top players at Chelsea, but sometimes training is not enough.

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

The biggest thing was probably a better understanding of the mental side of cricket and also the technical challenges I have in my game. Those two things happened in a very short space of time which changed me as a player.

Phil Neville has been great in terms of the pointers he has given me.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.