Toni Duggan Quotes

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

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.

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'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

I don't like to make comparisons, as it's different coaching a Spanish team to coaching a German or English team. Each country has their style, more or less, and within each country, they have different styles.

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

I think all coaches have their own way of doing things.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

Every coach will have good and bad.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.