Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

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 enjoy working with the younger players and helping them to develop.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

The most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that's their business.

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

Football will always be about the results because if you are winning and taking good results you are not asking me about the young players.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

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

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

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

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

If Jurgen Klinsmann thinks that the best way for his team to be successful is if his young players go to Europe, there is nobody in the world who can argue with that. That is his opinion, whether you agree with it or not.

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

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

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.