Michael Carrick Quotes

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

I like to try to get around the younger generation to just encourage them. But I've always been afraid of coaching because I was always hard on myself as a player.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

I'm a fan of coaching.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

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.

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

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 think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I truly love captaining. I've grown into enjoying it.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

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