“A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.” ThinkingNeedsMindPhilosophyTogetherGoalCommonSituationPlayerTeamAchieveDependsVicesMindsetCoachesWorking TogetherFlexibleOpen MindVice VersaBarcelonaCommon GoalFocal PointAjax Author:Louis van Gaal
“My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.” PhilosophyDifficultPracticePlayerCoachingMentality Author:Bill Belichick
“So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"” IfsWellsLooksHas BeensPhilosophyHomeEyeAsksFatherParentPlayerCriticismHarderCardsApplesTennisReportsPlusHoneyHandsomeMinusTennis PlayerPerplexedReport Cards Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“That has never been a priority for me and I want the players to deal with a harder situation in practice than they'll ever have to deal with in the game. Maybe that's part of our ball security philosophy.” WantPhilosophyGamesDealsSituationPracticePlayerSecurityBallsHarderPriorities Author:Bill Belichick
“Our philosophy doesn't change. We're always competing. But the ways to approach it and the ways to make that up and make it available to our players, there's no end to that. That's why the thought is that you're either competing or you're not, and that's why I'm learning and searching and trying to transfer information to our coaches and to our players.” WayTryingEndsPhilosophyPlayerInformationApproachAvailableCoachesCompetingTransfers Author:Pete Carroll
“We've lost a lot of coaches around here, but the philosophy and the approach, the standards we have set and the expectations we have maintained have always been upheld from one year to the next.I attribute that to the great character of the players and the willingness of the coaches to not get influenced and get off-message and to get out of the way.” WayYearsPhilosophyCharacterNextLostPlayerApproachMessagesStandardsExpectationsCoachesWillingnessAttributesGreat Character Author:Pete Carroll