Edin Dzeko Quotes

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Obviously I need a coach, but it's not the main thing in my team. I can play good even without a coach.

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

With one coach, you have a lot of confidence, and you play well. Then you go with another coach, and your confidence is zero. Football is this.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.

I normally talk to my players about everyday situations, and there are not really any secrets.

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I always speak with all the players during the week before every game we play, because it's important for them to know what I think and for me to see how they are before the game.

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.