Academy Quote by David Gill

As a manager, I live with my players and study them. That way, you can tell when something is wrong.

— Paolo di Canio

When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

— Samir Nasri

You play football to enjoy the game and the manager wants to be happy on the sidelines watching unbelievable football.

— Ross Barkley

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside…

— Graham Taylor

I'm the football manager. I make all the football decisions that evolve around the game that's being played on a Saturday.

— Alan Pardew

As a manager, a coach and a player, you want to be at the top end of the table.You want to be challenging.

— Chris Hughton

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

— Carlo Ancelotti

Football management is about managing people.

— Sean Dyche

As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.

— Sam Allardyce

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you…

— Bobby Cox

Whenever the manager speaks to you, you've obviously got to listen and take it all on board.

— Scott McTominay

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel…

— Adebayo Akinfenwa