Gordon Strachan Quotes

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

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 have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

I'm interested in coaching.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

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.

I'm a fan of coaching.

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.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

My idea is to become a manager one day.

I would never rule out coaching.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

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.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.