Steven Gerrard Quotes

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

When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.

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.

As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.

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

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

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

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.