Bret Bielema Quotes

Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.

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.

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

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.

I must first be sure of the type of football that I want played in the long term. It's up to me to build this identity.

From an early stage in my career, if you're talking about picking up knowledge, it would have been via Ian Greaves who was involved in my success as a young player at Bolton. And working under managers such as Bobby Gould and George Graham helped me to expand my knowledge at bit more.

I've always wanted to work with De Zerbi, and I think he is a genius in his vision of football.

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

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

At Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that.

I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.

I was born a football player and I love this game.

Germany, when you're a young player, is the best. There are lots of young talents here, and people have faith in them.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

I am a member of the Heads Up Football Advisory Committee, have participated in a Heads Up Football clinic, and strongly endorse the program. It's a better, safer way to play the game.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

I think every child in my town wants to be a football player.

In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.