Matt Busby Quotes

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.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

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.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

I started out wanting to coach football.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

It's very important that Manchester United have four or five young players every year from the youth system.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

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.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

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

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

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.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.