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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

The coach of Madrid must be very fond of the players and should not put them under a lot of pressure.

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique and shows the players up!

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

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.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

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.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.

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.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.