James Milner Quotes

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

I started out wanting to coach football.

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

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.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

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

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

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've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

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.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

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.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

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

I'm interested in coaching.

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

I enjoy teaching football.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

In football, there's always room for improvement.