Barry Trotz Quotes

My objective is to coach the national team.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

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.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that's all we're measured upon.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

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

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I am not a usual coach: it doesn't matter for me who are scoring the goals.

Every new coach is interesting.

I'm a fan of coaching.

I never lost the desire to coach.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

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.

Coaching the national team would be great.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.