Tony La Russa Quotes

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

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

I've never had any complaints about my coaching ability.

It's difficult to be a coach.

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've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

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

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.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

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

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

It is difficult for every manager, I think, in the first year.

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

There are parts of coaching that I miss.