Jurgen Klopp Quotes

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

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.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

I would love to go into coaching someday.

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

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing.

Obviously my former place in Washington, you got stars like Alex Ovechkin. Those are great challenges because you're looking at a player who does something very unique and trying to grow him in areas.

I only started playing top football when I was 17 and a half.

I started playing for a team called Cosmos in the Tandridge League before I went for a two-week trial with Palace. They must have liked what they saw.

Obviously I love coaching. It's what I've done my whole life.

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.

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.

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

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

Coaches from Celtic actually came to my door but I wasn't interested. I thought I'd get lost in the system. I wasn't ready for it.

I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.

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.

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.