David Fizdale Quotes

I'm interested in coaching.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

I miss coaching - certain elements of coaching.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

I know I'm a really good coach.

I'm not a very good coach.

I'm a fan of coaching.

A big part of managing is managing defeats and assessing where you are. It's making sure that you prepare a group of players and that you create an environment that is a competitive one but that is also a realistic one.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

When I was playing, I had that passion and fire, cussing everybody out, but I had the opportunity to change that being out on the floor. But now that I'm coach, I can still have my passion, but I just have to tone it down.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

Coaching the national team would be great.

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.

I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.

Sometimes a new coach can find it not easy.

In fact, a coach is primarily a trainer, not only in tactics but also in emotional matters.

I'm not the kind of coach who says, 'Let's do a few piggy-in-the-middle exercises and go home for lunch.'

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.