Whether or not he really needed to ditch the public showmanship and pre-match poetics to do so, he will feel he has proven wrong the critics who suggested he was just a dressing-room motivator.
My feeling is that ... you have to be flexible in making people feel comfortable so you can get the best out of them and they feel that they can pretty much do no wrong - and as a director try and guide things in the way that I like to see movies go.