Craig Bellamy Quotes

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

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

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

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.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

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.

The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.