Edgar Davids Quotes

Zidane is not a coach, but he is a teacher.

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.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

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.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

I already worked with Van Gaal before at the Under-20 team back in 2001. He hasn't changed much as a coach since. He really stands out.

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

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

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.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

Van Gaal is the best coach I've had. We've got a very special relationship.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

I think every coach brings their own personality.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.