Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Ronald Koeman
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch businessman Ronald Koeman.
Last updated on September 14, 2024.
I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.
I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.
I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.
I like to be in Europe - it's important for our experience. It's good for the club, the players and the fans.
In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.
Full compliments to everybody in Southampton because the support of the fans was amazing and the spirit and the belief of the players, it's very enjoyable for the manager.
Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.
If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.
Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.
The best player to compare to Aguero is Romario.
Everything would have been different for Barcelona without Messi.
If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.
Who does not want to coach Barcelona?
I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.
It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
Becoming Netherlands coach could be a nice end to my career.
I know what it is like when a player has big ambitions.
We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.
We are football players and we like to win games.
I hate players who always play the ball back to the goalkeeper.
I know myself that I am a manager who really gives young players a chance when they deserve it.
If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.
Daley Blind, Georginio Wijnaldum and Kevin Strootman too. They are examples of how you should behave as a top player.
You need luck, you need your key players, you need to be in the best shape, you need all of that to be champions.
When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.
Old Trafford is not really intimidating, no. I think the Man United fans are always behind the team and it's a fantastic place to play football.
What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.
Great coaches can't win always in life.
I want a quiet life.
I managed Zlatan when he was young and sometimes also difficult! But, okay, that is normal.
One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.
Within 24 hours of my departure from Everton, I had already received the first offer. Then they kept coming, but I keep it all away from me.
Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.
I've coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.
It's not only Van Dijk who can stop Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is good enough to create against really good defenders.
I think it is always good to know what is happening around the club.
I played with Romario. Sometimes you think he's sleeping, then in one split second he's scoring. It's a big quality. That means a lot of concentration for defenders. He's always fast, always on the line of sight. That's his best quality.
There are so many other examples in the Premier League of players who are the best in their country and make a move because they are really ready for a level higher. If they come to the English top flight, it turns out they need a period to adjust in terms of pace, aggressiveness and physicality, especially as a midfielder.
That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.
I'm always a big advocate for adapting to your new team, your new country and your new team-mates.
I don't read the comments of fans, no.
We have to respect the opponents but we also have to believe in ourselves.
If you are a happy man then you can give your best.
When you have Van Gaal in charge, it is a fact that there is fear in his team. The players have a fear for mister Van Gaal. That is not always good.
I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.
When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.
The Europa League is a different calibre than the Champions League.
Some players need pressure to get the best out of themselves.
The entire world knows what I have with Barcelona and what Barcelona have with Ronald Koeman, so if I could become Barcelona coach one day, I would be delighted.
I'd prefer to have 10 players scoring 10-15 goals than one scoring 25.
Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.
We have to be confident. If we are not you can't win.
The Premier League is different. Sometimes the Bournemouth game can be more difficult than Liverpool or Chelsea.
My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.
A new project can offer you a new challenge.
If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.
I love coaching and I love Barcelona.
In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was offered to me.
I accept that everyone is entitled to his opinion and as a coach, I don't run away from criticism.
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