Quotes About Youth

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.

I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

Fulham trust young players.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

I am dreaming that Italy can return to having lots of important talent. We need to grow our young players.

You don't want to push your young players too much.

When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.

Always be confident on the ball and have no fear when going out on the pitch. That is one thing young players need to have in their game to develop and play their best football, so that is what I do.

In any national team, the young players who have quality and the right mentality will stand out. And that's how it should be.

River is a fantastic club that goes beyond just football. They offer so many sports and activities within the club. There are schools for young players, and its DNA can be identified by every other club in Argentina.

It's been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues - and MLS is improving so much, too.

My discipline in myself has got me where I am. I try to emphasise that to young players.

Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players and bet on youth - but what counts is having a team, great players, and a solid squad to win titles.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

That is the issue with signing young players from other big European football nations - at some point, they will want to go home.

You have to be careful when you time a move to one of the biggest clubs. Occasionally, these young players do not realise what a good thing they are on to when they know that they will be playing every week.

I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I'm very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on a few times, and now I'm able to assist the team, assist the young players coming through, and help the guys who do have the ambition to play more for Wales.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.