Matt LaFleur Quotes

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

I was at Leeds Carnegie, the ninth tier. And I was coaching students. There would have been hundreds of managers with more experience. So I had to go to the fourth tier of Swedish football, pretty much in the Arctic circle.

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.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

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.

I want to be a better head coach than my father.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.

My job is to be the bench coach with the Rays and help this team succeed. If another opportunity arises, I'd welcome the opportunity.

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

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

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.

Troy Walters and I coached together.

I've been coaching how many years? A long time.

My coaches, trainer and agency have all helped make me the player and the business that I am today.

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

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

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

Jim Udinski has been coaching in the league for the past fourteen years, and his Division II team, the Lenape Valley Indians from suburban Philadelphia, has already made history - twice.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it's like, Why wouldn't I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.

I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.