Linford Christie Quotes

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

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

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.

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

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.

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

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

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.

Every new coach is interesting.

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

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

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

I've been around the coaching circuit far too much.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

It's difficult to be a coach.

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.

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

It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.

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.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.