Quotes About Development

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.

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

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.

I know all young players have to work hard.

Young players are always aggressive and unafraid. That's their weapon and I can learn from that.

First, as an owner of the club, you must choose a style of football. After that, you must find the managers that will work with the young players in your team in that style. After that, you must put a manager in the squad with the same mentality.

I enjoy seeing young players given the opportunity and then perform and go on to have fulfilling careers.

There are still so many issues around young players, and we need to find the right way for them. What is really important? What does he need for his self-belief? For his development?

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

I know English football people say you have to look out for young players, that maybe they can play 15 or 20 games but not more. They are afraid. I am not afraid to put young players in. I am not afraid but maybe they are.

It is all about the talents of the young players. If they have the talent you have to give an opportunity. If they don't have the talent then, OK, you have to look elsewhere.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

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.

As you can probably tell, the push to develop talent in Africa is personal. I grew up there. I played there. I know how much talent there is. We have to concentrate on building facilities, establishing successful leagues and finding investors to help young players.

The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you're in tanking mode, that means you've got young players who you're teaching bad habits to. I think that's unforgivable.

It's good to have young players around you.

One thing everyone knows about the NBA is that it's very difficult for young players to win at a high level.

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.

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.

It's important to bring young players through if they're good enough.

I think the Spanish way is the philosophy is similar to mines and in Spain they are very good at coaching young players for the team.

It's so awesome to see a lot of the young talent really grow and compete every single day.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.