Always Quote by Jaap Stam

You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often.…

— Graeme Souness

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

— Samir Nasri

What I do know as a manager, as a person, is that you have to try and be honest with everyone around you. If…

— Chris Hughton

As a player, you play and you have much more influence. As a manager, you talk about the game all week with every player…

— Marco van Basten

Being a good player doesn't necessarily make a good manager, that's for sure.

— Gianfranco Zola

A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more…

— Eniola Aluko

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad…

— Joe Torre

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

— Ronald Koeman

When a new manager comes in, every player has a little question mark over his head, and you want to show your best stuff…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

It's the players. They make a manager look good.

— Alex Cora

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

— Casey Stengel