Karolina Pliskova Quotes

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

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.

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.

When I play all the time, I play with a smile on my face, and then I can help my team with my goals and my game and the way I can play football.

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

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

I always speak with all the players during the week before every game we play, because it's important for them to know what I think and for me to see how they are before the game.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

With one coach, you have a lot of confidence, and you play well. Then you go with another coach, and your confidence is zero. Football is this.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

I could have coached better.

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.