Carl Lewis Quotes

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.

I'm not a very good coach.

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.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

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 wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

I'm interested in coaching.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I'm a fan of coaching.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.

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

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.