Clint Dempsey Quotes

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

I went through 15 years as a coach at Spurs working under seven, eight different managers. And every time a manager went, you weren't sure whether you'd still be there. Some people might worry about these things but I never have.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've played for four different people. I don't know how much more you can go.

I don't think it's fair to say the standard of English coaching is bad. It's more about pathway: how you can get a break and then progress from there. Even at the lowest levels there is impatience now, so you need a bit of luck in terms of the owner or chairman that you work with.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

I was at Marseille and had four coaches in four seasons. Changing coaches is nothing new.

Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.

I always say, I have been fired from more jobs than most people would ever have had in their entire career.

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.

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I get questions about how you're guiding these juniors.

My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.

I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me - and the players, an orchestra.

I don't think I've still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was our manager, and he knows what I can do.

I didn't get a training camp in Chicago. I was behind a lot in the plays, in the team's chemistry. Everything in the organization was going in a different direction.

Yes, when the time comes for me to hang up my boots, I would love to stay and work with the City coaching staff. It would be great to give something back like that.

When I first got into coaching, I just wanted to make it to the Mid-American Conference someday.

Chemistry's a word that people who make hires and decisions say, 'Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!'

The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.

That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, 'I want to be a Premier League manager one day'. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.

If you go down the leagues, you have to understand what level you're working with, and if you get frustrated, then it's not going to ever happen for you. That's why a lot of managers don't succeed where they should do.