The central defender admits that he is looking into doing his coaching badges and would one day love to take charge of his beloved Chelsea.
Terry has just signed a new long-term deal at Stamford Bridge, but that has not stopped him considering his options for the future.
"I want to go into management after I finish playing, even though it's a lot of pressure," said Terry in the Daily Express.
"I would love to be Chelsea manager, and that's the natural progression. I would want to go straight in at the deep end.
"I want to do it for the love of football, even though I know that as manager the pressure falls on your head and I know players are a nightmare.
"Your playing career goes so quickly and older players have always advised me, 'Take your badges, take your badges', which me, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole are looking into.
"Depending on what we have to do, I think we go straight to the B licence. We could c! oach the kids after training and get our badges that way.
"I have played under some great managers and have kept notes of training sessions. Even when managers do things I don't agree with I note it down, so I remember not to do that. It sounds silly now but, hopefully, it will be helpful.
"When Jose Mourinho was at Chelsea, I used to get coaching sessions off him, Guus Hiddink as well. And Chelsea keep records, so I could go back and see what we did in every training session. But it's good for me to have that folder and those ideas ready to use.
"You have to bounce ideas and feelings off the players because they are the ones on the training pitch. That is so important.
"It's vital you get feedback and I get feedback off players. When we do a good training session and the lads are saying, 'That was good today' and talking, I'm straight in, writing it down and keeping a record."
Zola influence
Terry admits he speaks! on a regular basis to fellow Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola -! now in charge at West Ham.
"I also look at Gianfranco Zola and Steve Clarke, who were at Chelsea and have stepped in at a good level over at West Ham and have brought new ideas with them," he continued.
"I speak to Zola on a weekly basis and find out what he's doing. They played under some great managers and used that.
"It's so important I keep absorbing stuff over the next five years. But I don't know exactly when it will be that I make the transition. I would love to keep playing until I am 35 or 36, depending on how things go."
Middle man
Terry also revealed that he is more than happy to act as middle man between Chelsea's hierarchy and the players.
"It was massively important for me that people like Didier signed a new deal. Ashley Cole and Lamps were our two best players last season and are also massively important," he said.
"These guys speak to me on a daily basis and I can then go to the club as a ! middle man and try and get things done - stress to people like Roman and Peter it is so important for these players to stay.
"Ideally the club want them to stay and the player wants to stay so let's get in a room and sort it out then. Rather than it taking six or seven months and it dragging on, which unsettles the player and the team.
"And if I can help in that way, then great for Chelsea."
It looks like our own Brian Roberts should be with us for a while longer. I guess the talks for him will begin when June comes around, or when someone breaks down and gives MacPhail what he wants.
