Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

We could all use more coaching.

There's just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors.

I'm interested in coaching.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

I'm a fan of coaching.

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

Many in top positions around Europe have devoted their lives to coaching.

Coaching is something I want to do.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

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.

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

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.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

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.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

The best piece of advice I've received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

My dream is to become an important coach of a great team, possibly Juventus. So, I'm observing and putting aside all the secrets of the various coaches that I have had to try to get the best out of myself.