Graham Potter Quotes

With Mourinho, I learned a lot.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I'm interested in coaching.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a fan of coaching.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

I've worked with a lot of good coaches, so I would be stupid if I did not pick anything up.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

You don't just come in and say, 'Bam, I'm mature; I'm the leader.' It took time for me to grow into this and learn how to talk to certain players and how to handle certain situations.

I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself.

You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.

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 could have coached better.

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

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.