Quotes About Coaching

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

I would love to be a coach, mentor, or a batting consultant. I would love to commentate in Hindi, as most people who watch the game are more comfortable with Hindi in India rather than English.

I coach a couple players. But it's not a thing where I'm going to hide and be that perfect mentor. I just give them the best advice I can and live my life accordingly.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

I'm always excited when it comes to coaching football, mentoring guys and them becoming better people.

If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.

Of course you cannot make a Messi or a Maradona. But even players who are not considered very skilful, if you coach them in a certain way you can make them better.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

The players love Guardiola's methods and it shows on the pitch. I think every player would like to work with him.

I always keep busy it gives you an opportunity to go through your coaching methods, your files, to see how other managers are working and re-educate yourself.

I would never close the door on coaching in Mexico.

I jumped on the Brady Hoke bandwagon in 2003 when he left an assistant job at Michigan to be the head coach at our alma mater. During his six years at Ball State, we were close.

For me, there's a lot of great jobs, great opportunities I know in coaching but, for me, the Michigan job was the best job for me.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I think that Sarri's formation and playing with a midfield three have been fundamental for me.

All coaches now look for forwards who not only score goals but also run back and help in midfield.

At Under-11/12, I was playing as a right-back. The manager then was Cyril Helstone, and he said to me, 'No, you're not a defender. You should be in midfield.' That was the big change in my career because from that moment until I made my debut in the first-team at Feyenoord, that was the position I played.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

I am very happy to coach AC Milan, it's a very big opportunity for me because Milan is the club of my life.

Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.

We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it's about mindset.

I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.