I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of teaching and mentoring over just achieving victories.
Vicente Del Bosque expresses that his primary goal as a coach is not merely to secure wins but to educate and nurture players. This perspective highlights a deeper philosophy in sports, where the development and growth of individuals are valued just as much, if not more, than the accolades achieved through competition.
In practice
During a sports seminar on coaching methodologies.
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Learn to listen with your fingers.
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.
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