Barry Trotz Quotes

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

With Mourinho, I learned a lot.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

I'm interested in coaching.

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

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

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

I've been coaching how many years? A long time.

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.

My passion is promoting and training.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

We could all use more coaching.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

I'm a fan of coaching.