Pepe Reina Quotes

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

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.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

The players do their thing on the pitch, and there's a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

I am absolutely happy to train Real Madrid. I have a wonderful challenge.

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

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

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all: to be a contributor to the success of an organization that he was a player that brought a certain amount of success.

I have been fortunate to work with many great coaches and also in different countries, and I have taken a bit from all of them - Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian football.

I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

Everyone knows Jose Mourinho is a fantastic manager.

My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That's my deal.

I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.

I've coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

I won with Fiorentina, Lazio, and Inter.