Alvaro Morata Quotes

This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

When a player joins Real Madrid's first team, they're often under pressure to be an instant success. By joining Castilla, I had the chance to understand the club and get to know the players, the culture, the country and the language.

I'm the Real Madrid coach, and the demands are huge.

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

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

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

I am absolutely happy to train Real Madrid. I have a wonderful challenge.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

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.

The Steelers run a great organization.

I had my father on the Under-21 team and during the World Cup in France in 1998 - and also in AC Milan for four months. So it was a weird experience, because having your father as a coach is pretty weird, and I was the captain. But he was great.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

You can see the players are world-class just by the way they pass the ball. Ozil, Sanchez, and Cazorla, for example, are huge personalities. Even though the club maybe spent more money on me, I can still learn a lot from them in any respect.

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.

When you know how the coach ticks and how he wants to play football, it makes the decision easier. But for the main part, I came to England because of the club Manchester United.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

From the moment I left Sao Paulo and Brazil, I was fixed on staying here, playing for the first team and succeeding at Real Madrid. That was always my dream. But it was an advantage to be able to join Castilla first.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

England is of course a great country to play in, and I'll always be open for a return. But it has to be a club I feel good about.