Mickey Arthur Quotes

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

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

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

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.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it.

I've had a lot of really good preparation. I've coached a lot of games around the world.

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.

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.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.