Diego Simeone Quotes

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

My goal one day is to be Brazil coach, but to get there I need to have a club career. I started well in Turkey. I started well in Russia and I did a good job in India.

When you have been coached by Ancelotti and other greats, it's hard to be coached by Domenech!

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

If I ever want to get back into coaching I should be calling teams they shouldn't be calling me. That's when you know you really want to do it.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

I've got goals I want to achieve in my career and I'm working towards them every day.

I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached.

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.

I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.