Mark Hughes Quotes

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

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

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I'd only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Leadership means making people feel good.

You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale.

A good coach is someone who can break down players, someone who is good with angles, setting up points on the court.

In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.

Management is not about shouting and bawling, because some guys will not like that. They take it personally.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

It was Martin O'Neill who said, 'You're a central midfielder.' He put faith into players. He was very clever at getting into players' heads, leaving little remarks to make me believe more. The players at Villa all moved up another level under him.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I'd be comfortable doing it but I'd still be true to myself. I wouldn't turn into a madman or start throwing teacups and screaming.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.