Quotes about Coaching

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

At City, you'd see Pep chewing someone's ear off about football and think, 'Wow. I'd love to ask a question, but I'd probably be there for a week.'

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but our guys are dealing with stuff and we want to make sure we are sensitive to that.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

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

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

U.S. and Russia - both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.