Gary Payton Quotes

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

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

I like to try to get around the younger generation to just encourage them. But I've always been afraid of coaching because I was always hard on myself as a player.

I never lost the desire to coach.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

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

I have no desire to coach basketball.

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

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.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

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.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

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

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.