Fabio Quagliarella Quotes

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

At the end of my journey, I see myself as a Rocket. That's where I ended my career, and also the organization that did so much for me. They knew I had a vision, and I went to work for the owner, who's a man who believes in philanthropy and believed in me as a player.

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

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years of hard work and sacrifice, learning and mistakes.

I've worked with a lot of coaches in my career, but one man stands out, and that's Mr Ancelotti.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

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

Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn't appeal.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.