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  • Coach
  • born 1977
  • 67 quotes

Phil Neville, a coach (born 1977), is quoted 67 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Manchester, Medal, Everton and Manchester United.

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I don't think football management is easy.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

It's our English mentality to worry about the weather.

It's part of the captain's job to keep people on their toes.

Rankings aren't that important to me. I want a winners' medal.

I'm working with elite players, and they test and challenge you.

I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

I love positivity. I'm always saying, 'Well done' - maybe too often, in fact.

I've proved I'm in love with the women's game, and I think the quality is unbelievable.

Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.

One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.

I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn't leave United to see out my career picking up wages.

It's a great club, Everton. You don't just go there to work; you have to be part of the family.

I always say I'll rest when I die - that's my motto. I just hope I don't die before the World Cup!

I didn't win a trophy with Everton, but that time is just as special as my playing career at United.

I'm going to prove I can coach in the women's game and prove I can manage an England team to success.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

At the end of the day, if I'm playing for a manager who I know cares about me, then I'm going to give more.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

Whether you're male or female, going to a World Cup is the biggest thing that will ever happen in your life.

When it came to Sociedad, I didn't want to come back into football so soon after the Manchester United experience.

The pressure will always be there at United, and David Moyes will have to win games and win trophies. He will do that.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season.

I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.

People make a big thing about rankings, but being first or second in the world doesn't mean much if you don't actually win anything.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

I've always had a good relationship with the BBC, and I'd enjoyed the freedom that goes hand in hand with punditry, so it was ideal for me.

Within 10 minutes of a WSL game finishing, virtually ever player gets feedback on their performances in terms of England-level requirements.

The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that medal around our necks.

Me going out 25 minutes early onto the training ground to practise wasn't me being teacher's pet. That is what I have done throughout my career.

I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.

As a manager, you can only worry about those who can get on the bus, and those are the fit ones. Injuries and illnesses mean opportunities for others.

People leave United and tend to drift out of the game. I actually think I became a better player and a better person. I proved a lot of doubters wrong.

The biggest thing I will miss is 4 July when Everton are due back for pre-season training. I loved that day. I lived for it, getting back with the lads.

It's not science; it's common sense: it's playing the right players in the right positions for the style of football you want to implement in a specific game.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

I've played in successful sides, and you smell it. When dinner finishes at 7:45 P.M., and you're playing in an unsuccessful side, everyone goes up to their own room.

Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It's crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end.

I played for England at cricket and football. Playing at Wembley in front of 60,000 people seemed better than playing at Cirencester in front of my family and friends.

I'll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I've still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don't regret anything.

We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.

There is this preconceived idea that I would follow the likes of Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, and Gary into the media because it's a really good life. But football is my life.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.

I won the league at Middlesbrough with Manchester United, and I wore my medal for the next two or three days because I thought, 'I want this again - and the best want it again and again'.

When you talk about the ambition to get more girls to play at a younger age, they are inspired by watching Toni Duggan and Steph Houghton playing, either live or by watching it on television.

Punditry has taken me across the world, it is wonderful to have interaction with new people, and it's a very small world now. I've worked for companies in the Middle East, America, and Europe.

I'd watched games in the WSL because my son was at Manchester City, and obviously, they have a fantastic facility there, so when I used to go and pick him up, there were games on that I'd watch.

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