Chris Coleman Quotes

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

You get to learn so much while working in another country.

I did almost take a job in China because I thought it might be good for me to go abroad and experience what I think the best coaches in the Premier League have had. It helps you learn. You have to evolve.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.

The benefit of coming to a place like Greece and winning is priceless for your development.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

My first experience out of my country was Ecuador. That was a very good option for me. To know how you can develop your coaching style or your personality being away and being alone, that is not easy.

In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

I have definitely learned a lot from playing in different countries and in different styles of football, and I feel very happy now with Al Ain.

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.