Chris Coleman Quotes

Since Carlo Ancelotti has arrived, he had emphasised hard work and intensity, and now that is what Real Madrid are associated with. He has playing experience, which makes him different to other coaches.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

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

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

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.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

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

It's a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.

I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.

Coach Staley definitely had me doing overtime. It has been fun, though, man.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.