Coaching Quotes

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

The team is an extension of the coach.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

Coaching takes patience.

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

You must have a passion to coach.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

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

Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Leadership starts at the top.

Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

Coaching has been my entire life.

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