Antonio Conte Quotes

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside.

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

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it's different - and that's why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

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.

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

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

I think coaches really do matter because they see the game, and we just play the game from a different point of view, so they're able to give us a lot of tips and a lot of pointers, and I think coaches are really, really important.

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

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

Whatever happens happens, but learning from the players at Chelsea is a great experience.

I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

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 think the best players in the world make the players around them better. And I'm always trying to do that.

My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years of hard work and sacrifice, learning and mistakes.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

My coaches, trainer and agency have all helped make me the player and the business that I am today.