Jamie Carragher Quotes

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

It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.

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

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.

Every new coach is interesting.

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

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

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.

What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.

I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

Working with Ravi Shastri as Team Director was a good experience.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

With Mourinho, I learned a lot.

You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

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.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.