Coaches Quotes

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

Coaches are sales people and change agents.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

All really successful coaches have a system.

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Players win games, and coaches win players.

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Coaches build teams, parents build players.

My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.

When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.