Ken Blanchard Quotes

I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

We could all use more coaching.

I'm interested in coaching.

Pep is the best manager in the world. He's always looking to help me get better and improve my game.

I'm a fan of coaching.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

My coaches, trainer and agency have all helped make me the player and the business that I am today.

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.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

You always learn from both good and bad bosses.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

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.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I get questions about how you're guiding these juniors.

I'd like to manage someone, a young talent that maybe doesn't have the mic skills.

With Mourinho, I learned a lot.

When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.

I know how important it is to take different tactics from different managers on board.

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.