Sean McVay Quotes

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

There are many players with talent, but it is important to find a coach who knows how to make the most of that.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

I've been with some great head coaches, but also some great assistant coaches, too.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

As a player, I was very lucky to have so many good managers in my career. I remember the first two at Lecce: Eugenio Fascetti and Carlo Mazzone. They were very important for me and my growth.

You're able to learn different things from different coaches and different players.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

And when you're a coach your main concern is the players and the coaches. The last concern you have is really about yourself.

I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.

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.

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.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.