Robin Van Persie Quotes

Coaching the national team would be great.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

I'm interested in coaching.

I'm a fan of coaching.

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

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 could have coached better.

We could all use more coaching.

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.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

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

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

Every new coach is interesting.

My dream is to become an important coach of a great team, possibly Juventus. So, I'm observing and putting aside all the secrets of the various coaches that I have had to try to get the best out of myself.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

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.

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

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

Working with Ravi Shastri as Team Director was a good experience.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

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