Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

We have to make the players who haven't played matches feel valued.

My players' feeling is the most important thing for me.

It's always important with a young one in your team that he needs to be comfortable in the position he plays.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

Having the team with leaders - John Terry is one, Gareth Barry is a leader - is very, very important. These players helped me a lot.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

I like Lukaku. No matter what harsh judgement he gets, he's a good player - he's powerful and quick - but he needs more support. It's easy to criticise and judge, but he needs support give him a push to boost his confidence.

I think, for every player, it is important he knows the manager believes in him, and it is important he has the confidence of the manager. That helps you to find the best form.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

Coming back to Tottenham, you feel confident with these players and the manager - the way he talks to you and wants you to play.

For a player to really be at his best you have to give him a certain confidence, but I did not feel appreciated by some people at Liverpool.

As a player, you would sometimes want a bit more public backing.

My priority is, do my players feel supported from within their dressing room by their own federation?

When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.

I back all of my players, not only Wayne Rooney.

When I get down, I can sense my teammates looking at me, and they can get down as well. That was something I had to learn over the years.