Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it’s the team that plays best on the day that prevails. Chris Coleman Read Quote
When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other’s company. That 10 days is very important ,and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp. Chris Coleman Read Quote
You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them. Chris Coleman Read Quote
If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you’re growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it’s very difficult. It’s not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest. Chris Coleman Read Quote
Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don’t rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest. Chris Coleman Read Quote
I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they’ll play very, very well. Good players or great players, nine times out of ten, they have good games. Chris Coleman Read Quote
Concentration and focus – they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you’re going to succeed. I’ve seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can’t keep the same levels up on a Saturday. Chris Coleman Read Quote
Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right. Chris Coleman Read Quote
As long as my guys are out there and doing what I’m asking, and they’re giving their best, I don’t think anybody can ask for much more than that. Chris Coleman Read Quote
For me, the training has to be a mixture of hard work – it has to have a good structure, a good base – but also, I don’t want all my players to be like machines. Chris Coleman Read Quote
