Top 70 Young Players Quotes

I have faith in the players, who have paid me back on the pitch. I have brought in young players because they have a lot of potential. I’m the only one who decides, and I take decisions based on sporting reasons.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don’t see them going abroad. It’s so expensive to travel.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who’s performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

It’s been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues – and MLS is improving so much, too.

Just like all young players, there is a difference between being involved and just participating.

It’s kind of interesting on a team sport because you have young players, you have older players, you have veterans. But ultimately, when you step in between those lines, you’re just a player.

Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

Let’s face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative – there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.

I admire Arsenal and the philosophy that the young players have. Liverpool, with their Spanish players, they also have an incredible squad. And Manchester United and Chelsea are teams that are very big, like Real Madrid and Barcelona, with money and incredible players.

You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.

If young players are capable of playing 90 minutes every week at European clubs why prevent them from doing that?

The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.

Young players will of course always improve upon coming to England. But I came here at 27 and already had a lot of experience from earlier in my career.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

It’s nice to see those young players who are humble and working hard and to see them thriving in the NBA.

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

My dream is to help young players. I don’t want them to make the mistakes I did in the past.

I like working with young players.

It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Chris Coleman and Ryan Giggs have shown that they’re not afraid of giving young players a chance if you’re ready and you’re good enough.

The players are benefiting a lot from the PSL. You saw the young players in the PSL who are now in the senior team. They are learning from the international players who play with them in the league.

At the end it’s not too important to speak too much. The important thing is what you do on the pitch, that you are an example for the young players, for the old players, that everybody knows that this guy will help us.

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.

A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

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.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players – literally. I was 35, and you can’t be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It’s cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn’t matter, everybody wants to win.

You have to be careful when you time a move to one of the biggest clubs. Occasionally, these young players do not realise what a good thing they are on to when they know that they will be playing every week.

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players’ pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

The advice I would give to young players is always give St Mirren an opportunity.

Everyone wants to play in the Champions’ League because that’s where it is all happening. That’s where you get the A-status for players. It’s very important for young players.

Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

Young players always want to win things.

With young players you never know how quickly they’re going adapt.

It’s good to have young players around you.

I hope maybe one day I can be like Wayne Rooney. Maybe then some young players will be proud to play against me. That would be amazing.

Coming here to Liverpool, with the history of playing young players, it was the place to go to if I was to move. They’ve not let me down.

Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.

Maybe we can see more men’s and women’s combined events so the young players can be marketed better.

Fulham trust young players.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

That is the issue with signing young players from other big European football nations – at some point, they will want to go home.

Many young players tell you that they want to play for Manchester United or Arsenal. My dream was to play for Arsenal and I realised it. When I arrived, I thought: ‘Wow, I’m here!’

You can only advise young players to make the step to Liverpool.

I think New Zealand Rugby do an exceptional job, the way it’s set up from the All Blacks, right down to grassroots. There’s a clear path young players can take if they want to be an All Black, if they’re talented, or if they get opportunities.

Green base ballers don’t want to be viewed as unhealthy. Young players are constantly judged and evaluated on every layer of their being.

There are quite a lot of young players around now with undoubted talent who get stuck in academies at big clubs.

Always be confident on the ball and have no fear when going out on the pitch. That is one thing young players need to have in their game to develop and play their best football, so that is what I do.

I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I’m very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on a few times, and now I’m able to assist the team, assist the young players coming through, and help the guys who do have the ambition to play more for Wales.

You’re all over the place usually with young players. You’re trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that’s necessary at this level.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I’m still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I’m going to see things. They’re not going to see what I see. So it’s being able to translate that and help them see what I’m seeing.

In any national team, the young players who have quality and the right mentality will stand out. And that’s how it should be.

I still want to think long term on a strategical basis but I realise how much joy it brings to be a coach and I am fully concentrated on that now. It is more joyful to develop young players than worry about a budget.