Marv Levy Quotes

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

Matt LaFleur's a great coach.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

Coach Coughlin, he's one of the best coaches I've ever had. He's one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

When I arrived at Bayern he asked me: 'How are you? Are you ready to learn how to play football?' Before, I thought the coach's job was just to set up the team. However, with Guardiola it's something different. He is addicted to football and because of that he is a phenomenon.

Zidane was one of the best players that I have seen. Now as a coach, I try to learn as much as possible from him. He knows a lot because he was an exceptional player.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

At Southampton, my dad was the academy coach at under-11 level.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.