Quotes About Development

It's very important that Manchester United have four or five young players every year from the youth system.

Obviously, I talk to young players and help them a little bit with my experience.

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

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

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.

If they deserve it, I'm ready to play with very young players. Why not?

I think if you look at, for instance, what the Seahawks - what we did winning the Super Bowl, that was with a very young team. So you have to blend the experience with young players and develop those as well.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

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

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

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.

We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

I had some very good players and some wonderful young players hitting the scene. Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Michael Owen - we had something tangible to work with and move forward.

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'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.

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

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

There is a specific mentality that is put into the young players at Barcelona, and from nine or 10 years old, you have to make good seasons because, if not, you are out.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

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

Ajax always bring through young players from their academy - we can't pay €20m for a player, so we make sure we develop those players and give them the opportunity to play.

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.

I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

Fulham trust young players.