Unai Emery Quotes

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

We have to talk about the players we have.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

Every coach will have good and bad.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

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

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.