Nick Saban Quotes

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

With Marco Silva, the way he coaches players, he has that knowledge: he wants the best out of you, basically. He wants something out of you all the time, and having seen him work in a short space of time, it's only going to improve.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.

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.

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

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I started out wanting to coach football.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

I like making players better and smarter.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

I hope that all the Indian football players who will be with me under my coaching will show their talent and come out with great success.