Ross Barkley Quotes

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

I want to train with whoever is the best.

At Southampton, my dad was the academy coach at under-11 level.

Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

As a young player, you need a lot of playing time to evolve.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

As a player, I was always interested in tactics and how I can get better.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.