Sol Campbell Quotes

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I've had a lot of really good preparation. I've coached a lot of games around the world.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

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

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?

I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

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

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.