Sourav Ganguly Quotes

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

It is all about the talents of the young players. If they have the talent you have to give an opportunity. If they don't have the talent then, OK, you have to look elsewhere.

It's difficult to be a coach.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he's a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He's a good person, always trying to help players out.

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

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

I've always had a fortunate knack for grabbing young talent and giving them a break.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

A coach these days is more of a manager than a coach. At this level, you shouldn't really need a coach. You need someone to organise, to come up with gameplans and tactics, rather than someone who is going to do much actual coaching.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.