Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.
To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.
Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.
I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.
The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.
I don't think the fans pull for or against a coach.
I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.
A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.
As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.
People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.
