Louis van Gaal
I hope that all the people who work with me remember me as a human being.Collection: Hope
Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.Collection: Communication
The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.
I believe in Manchester United.
A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.
Every human being is special because they all have identities.
I am amazed when people say I am single-minded.
Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.
With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.
If you ask me how did I do at United, I will say it was my best year ever, given the circumstances I was working under. We played football that was quite alright. But it's not football that is appreciated in England.
To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.
In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.
I think you have to refresh the squad every year, and I have done it with all my clubs.
Every coach wants to train Manchester United; it's one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I had to follow Bobby Robson at Barcelona. He had won three titles.
It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.
I am not a dictator; I am a communicator.
I don't think my players are robots. They are humans and make errors.
I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.
The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.
The media likes me because I give honest answers. How many people in football give honest answers? I don't lie. Always the truth. OK, maybe my truth. But it is the truth.
Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.
I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.
I think I could have worked as a technical director. But in this role, you can't attend training or say anything for fear it won't suit the coach, directors, or media. I don't think I want a job like that.
I am not a usual coach: it doesn't matter for me who are scoring the goals.
With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.
The pitch is the most important material for a football player.
I like it if a coach enjoys himself and is passionate.
It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.
You need always guts to put youngsters in the squad and also in the line-up.
I thought always Manchester United can buy every player because they have a lot of power.
You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.
In the football world, you have to deliver. However, as an ex-player, you always have more credit.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
I am open with the players, with my media officer, and also the media.
I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.
Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.
I think the team is always better than the individual player.
You are always evaluating. That philosophy is very important for me. Because of that, I am - or maybe I should say was - a very successful manager.
There is no winter break, and I think that is the most evil thing of this culture. It is not good for English football. It is not good for the clubs or the national team, and I think you should change it.
I have good memories of Manchester United.
I hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.
It is not normal that one team dominates for 20 years in a row as the champion.
You have to live in the present, I think.
Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.
I think it is always a success when you win the title.
When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England - more than other countries.
I always played attacking football.
At Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that.
It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.