Quotes About Coach

Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.

Obviously it's my job, a coach's job to start giving the players a platform and start preparing, start planning.

There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it. And everybody who's done it, there are times when it becomes too much and you need some sort of break while you figure out how you de-stress, if you want.

When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my brothers I used to sit outside and pretend to be reading something really intellectual.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

I thought I had a pretty good American accent but I had a few sessions with a voice coach over there and she was picking up on a few things. Possibly because I've got such a strong Northern accent, I emphasise the wrong part of words so the idea is to work on my American accent.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

All I know is Coach Cook said I'd be a pretty good sand player because I have all the shots.

VUU had won some national championships and had a great coach in Dave Robbins.

Balotelli I have known since I gave him his debut at 17.

It's up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

My natural position is left-back in a four-man defence, but you have to be ready to help the team in the way the coach wants.

I was really good, I had a coach who said to me, 'If you want to be a top player, you will need to play as a central defender. If you want to be a good player, you will be a midfielder.' I think he was wrong but, maybe as a central defender, I could be much better, I don't know!

When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.

I'm just going to do my job, what coach wants me to do, be a defensive piece, and when needed to be a scorer, I'm going to be that.

Kirby Smart is one of the best defensive minds in college football.

I was always a player who demanded the maximum at training and to try to finish as high as possible. I have that as coach, too.

I think Ancelotti is a great coach who has a great relationship with the players, but is also very demanding of them.

I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he's looking at me for which position.