Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

You learn a lot from quality players.

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.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.

I was lucky enough to play with great platers Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer and that's where I learned about leadership.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

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

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.

I need to go play the right way, listen to LeBron and be a sponge and try to soak up what he's going to tell me.

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I've learned so much from Mourinho and love being in his team and learning new roles.

In the early days, when I first got into the WI team, when the Ws were playing, I would sit and watch. When you could learn from watching players like that, it was a great joy to watch them play.

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

I believe in order to coach, you've got to start at the ground level. The same way I learned how to play basketball.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.