Nick Nurse Quotes

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I have a really good relationship with Bayern. I might become a coach after retirement, but with the youth teams.

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.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

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

I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.