Alex Ferguson Quotes

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

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 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.

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.

My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years of hard work and sacrifice, learning and mistakes.

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.

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the experience that I've got but there's so much more to it than that and I'd never take it for granted and just say I can jump into a new role and it will be easy and a breeze because I know it won't be like that.

If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.

You must have a passion to coach.

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.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

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

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

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

Goodbye not because I'm retiring, but because I'm merely changing jobs. From being your left tackle to being the No. 1 fan of the Cleveland Browns.

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

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

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

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.

Like everybody I needed to learn to be a coach, I needed to practise that and make mistakes in a decent environment where I could develop myself and not fear I was going to lose my job.

When you're a coach there's no age limit. It's the results that make you last.

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