Sam Allardyce Quotes

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

I was forced to learn a lot about psychology as a player, and as a captain to get the best out of others. There's still a lot of scepticism about it in sport and the workplace, but dealing with fluctuations of form, and pressure, and being away from home are more important than your cover-drive.

I have to work at my own speed.

I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.

I think with the 'Fred' videos online, I prefer doing it by myself. I mean it's YouTube. You want to have all the creative control because that's the only place in the world where you get that.

Only the autodidacts are free.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

Coaches do get very nervous.

It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.