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As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

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.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.