Mickey Arthur Quotes

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

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

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

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

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

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

Every camp I do, I'm always trying to figure out how I can help kids get better, so holding the actual title of coach, that doesn't matter to me. In life, I'm a coach. I think we all are.

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

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

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

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.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

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.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

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.

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.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

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.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.