PEOPLETHINK that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my CAREER it has also been about helping people become BETTER, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football PITCH.
I think, when I was YOUNGER and I was on LOAN, I used to get nervous before games, but as you get OLDER, you ADAPT to it, and it becomes second nature to walk out onto the pitch and PERFORM.
I'm GOING to a GREATCLUB in England, and I want to continue developing my game there. The club has put a lot of FAITH in me, and I want to repay them out on the pitch.
I don't THINK I'll ever feel as FAMOUS or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 PEOPLELIVE there and 12,000 of them come to every game. RUNNING onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
I LOVED baseball. I was a PITCHER. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the CAT and mouse battle with the batter on EVERY pitch. You had to develop grit.
The REASON I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what PITCHERS have to do to win GAMES.
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.