Coaches Quotes

First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.

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

I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

You can’t coach guts and commitment.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

The coach is first of all a teacher.

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.

I started out wanting to coach football.

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

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

I will never coach again. I don't want to, but I wouldn't even if I did.

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

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

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.

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

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

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.