Nita Ambani Quotes

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.

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.

Playing every day with important players is good for a young player: you are always learning from experienced players.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

At Ajax, we have a certain philosophy that is sometimes more important than winning - the development of players.

It is all about the talents of the young players. If they have the talent you have to give an opportunity. If they don't have the talent then, OK, you have to look elsewhere.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

Athletes from rural areas are getting a chance to showcase their talent through the Khelo India Games.

In the early days, when I first got into the WI team, when the Ws were playing, I would sit and watch. When you could learn from watching players like that, it was a great joy to watch them play.

I believe in order to coach, you've got to start at the ground level. The same way I learned how to play basketball.

I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.

Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.

These youngsters are gaining experience and making use of the opportunities. At some point, it will help me be relieved of responsibility because World Cup is such a high pressure tournament.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

Being part of the India 'A' team has helped me grow as an all-rounder.

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

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

I really enjoy helping younger guys out, because this league is about playing it forward a little bit.

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.