Diego Forlan Quotes

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

I think sometimes players must have a wake-up call before they realise they are back in African football.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

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

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.

You always think you're one of those players who will be in one place the whole time, one of those guys they'll never let leave because you play hurt, do what it takes. But it's a different age. A lot of coaches, they like having younger guys.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.

In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

I have a business in North Carolina but am open to coaching or broadcasting as well. I've got four years on my contract and want to play as long as I can with my knees, but I'll let God take care of that.

The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I've been aware of that; that's why I've stayed and haven't wanted to retire and come back - because you skip a beat.

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

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

I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?