Ryne Sandberg Quotes

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

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

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

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.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside.

Watching a guy go from not having ever played an NBA game before to growing up and developing into an All-Star player, that's probably the most rewarding thing that you can do as a coach.

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

In today's sport, coaches are in a partnership with their top players.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

I like making players better and smarter.

As a player, I was always interested in tactics and how I can get better.

I enjoy coaching.

I'm especially thankful for being able to coach so many talented young men over my 18 years here. It has been so rewarding to see these players come to OU and mature over a four- or five-year career, and not just on the field. To play a small part in their growth is what I will always cherish the most.

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.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.

The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.

I work on my whole game and learn from the people around me, who I've benefited from tremendously, or the new players who come in to the club.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

Three years under Saban changed me. He's the best coach in the world at what he does.

If a guy's not executing very well, then obviously we haven't given him enough looks in practice.

Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.