Quotes About Coaching

That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters.

I love teaching the younger skaters.

I kind of thought like many skaters, 'aw, I'm not going to coach, I've already spent my 22 years in the rink.'

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don't have any.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn't necessarily me.

Something that is unique to coaching young people is there is such a range of talent, skill development and personality. And it's important to coach age-appropriately. You want to instill the fundamentals, always. But the right fundamentals.

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

Coaching is leadership, and leadership is leadership, whether in a gym, an office, a classroom, or a family.

One of the fashionable coaching slogans of the time was 'peripheral vision', a term which attracted Rowe's derision. 'You know what that means? It means seeing out of your arse,' said Rowe

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

I still love cricket and being involved. That ranges from commentating on Big Bash cricket to coaching my sons under-15 team.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

When you were away with Ireland, you didn't really have that much coaching. It was more of five-a-side, or 11-a-side game, and that would be it.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.