Nick Nurse Quotes

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

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.

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

I've been around some great coaches and learned a lot from every single stop I've had.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

It was frustrating when the managers would change; you'd go to the bench and try to work your way back into the team. But it makes you stronger.

I know I get a lot of grief about some of the things I've said about Coach Saban, but working under him was like going back to school and getting another degree.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Learn, Earn, Serve

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

We could all use more coaching.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.