Wayne Rooney Quotes

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

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.

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.

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the experience that I've got but there's so much more to it than that and I'd never take it for granted and just say I can jump into a new role and it will be easy and a breeze because I know it won't be like that.

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

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

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

My idea is to become a manager one day.

It's difficult to be a coach.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

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

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

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 believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.