Andrea Pirlo Quotes

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

Playing at a club like Chelsea and being given the opportunity to play with the world-class players that we have means you can learn from them and improve your game.

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.

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

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

I only have words of thanks to Mourinho, he has made me better. I played a lot under him and I was named player of the season with him in the dugout.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

Working under Pep Guardiola, a chance like that doesn't come along too often. That's no disrespect to Mauricio Pochettino, but the people that Pep has worked with grow as players.

I work on my whole game and learn from the people around me, who I've benefited from tremendously, or the new players who come in to the club.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I think United always had a plan for me. They nurtured me.