Jesse Marsch Quotes

Jesse Marsch

Profession : Coach

Birth : November 8, 1973

When I think about all the different people that I have met from different places, I always try to ask them about their families, where they grew up, their religion, to get to know them and understand how they became who they are. I love that.

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One of my core philosophies of leadership is valuing opinion and growing ownership within the group. That means that we have to hear opinions.

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I need the players to give their opinions to know what they think. I need the staff to give their opinions to know what they think and then I need to incorporate them into what we do because if I say I value them as people and players with their own thoughts and opinions but I never use anything they suggest then they don't believe me.

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You don't always see people who are at a very high level who are givers and not takers.

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The biggest thing I learned at Leipzig was that I didn't belong there. I didn't feel right there. I didn't feel like I fit.

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I just try to come with energy every day, to be positive, to have conversations with people, to have them get to know me, to get to know everybody else, and then to try to have my finger on the pulse of how to help the project go in a direction that I think can be successful and rewarding.

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The way that I like to play the game requires all 11 players to be involved in every phase of the match.

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My ethos fits well with the club and this community here in Leeds.

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I only know working hard and giving everything I have - that's all I know.

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We have different pressing strategies and it's not just based on formations, it's based on what the opponent presents and where we want to overload the match - with and without the ball.

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A big term we always use is counter-press and how we arrange ourselves and what we do when we move the ball. So, in all moments, we try to have strategies and create clarity as to what individual roles are and how they impact each other, and then how that fits within match plans and what opponents are presenting.

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Koulibaly was always one of my favourite centre-backs.

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Obviously I know that when you're the coach of Celtic, winning is the most important thing.

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My way of working is really to focus in on the job that I'm doing and concentrate on the moment. And the more that I do that the more other possibilities can arise.

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Playing against relegation foes can be a pesky match.

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If Patrick Vieira wants to go out and have a nice bottle or glass of French wine I'm open to it, but he's got his world, I've got my world.

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For me, I was a young American who grew up here and tried to figure out a way to take myself from being a player to being a good coach.

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Frankly it's a big compliment to even be considered a coaching match-up with a guy like Patrick Vieira.

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When I inherited the New York team it was a very passive team, they would sit a little bit deeper and then they would give the ball to Thierry Henry and they would catch you on the counter. I had to change the whole mentality of how we thought about things and how we played.

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Ralf Rangnick is a genius in terms of the way he thinks about the game.

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