Sol Campbell Quotes

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Coaching is not easy.

When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

In terms of the coaching aspect and things like that, I've always been someone that prides themselves in helping young talent.

If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing.

What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.

I remember doing my first coaching sessions at Macclesfield, when I was still playing, and I was just terrible. I felt really uncomfortable standing in front of people, and it felt very odd. It was not something I was naturally comfortable with at all.

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

I understand that I have to prove myself as a manager. I think I have the potential. I have a lot of knowledge to share, and I think I'm well equipped to translate my thoughts to the players.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

My passion is promoting and training.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

If I could help someone somewhere, help a young manager, I'd love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.

Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!