Coaching Quotations

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

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

I've seen the power of Life Coaching firsthand and I know how beneficial it can be.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

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

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

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

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

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

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

A man is always better than he thinks.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

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

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

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.

Monty is a fantastic addition to the squad. I am looking forward to coaching him, he is a no-nonsense competitor who will bring great experience and leadership to our squad.

I was at that World Cup, coaching the Netherlands, and I heard somebody yelling, 'Skip, Skip, Skip!' at me in a thick accent. It was this big Russian kid named Igor who was in the Dodgers camp for a while. He didn't make it, but he could pound the ball pretty good.

I was impressed with how smoothly things went. The coaching staff has a good grasp on how they want things to be run.

My understanding is he has been OK'd by the (UF football) coaching staff to play both. That makes me believe they don't want him as a quarterback because they usually don't like those guys to play two sports.

My team gets better every day. We have senior leadership and a coaching staff that works hard.

Personally, I think he has the coaching ability. A lot of it will depend on his staff. He'll need to add to his staff an assistant coach who has some connections to urban areas and be able to attract inner-city kids.

On the face of it, the bill supports what we already do. Counseling that is specifically for the sport really is coaching and that isn't something we would regulate.

I wish I could coach 100 Willies. Coaching Willie has been a pleasure. I admit that I was a little nervous when he made those comments about being player of the year, but I love how he backed them up. He's been a joy.

I wish I could have a group like this every year. But if that was the case, coaching would be easy and everyone would be coaching. Like I told them before we came over here tonight ?no matter what happens, I am proud to have had the opportunity to coach them.

I wish I could say coaching was that easy, but we all know better, ... I was happy for our kids, because they have been on the opposite end of these kind of games in the past.

I wouldn't trade all those years of coaching for anything. We spent a lot of time with the kids and adults putting the programs together, and it was all worth it.

I guess if I had to attribute it (the turnaround), it was just the fact that the kids have done what we've asked them as a coaching staff and some of those things have turned out to their benefit, which has helped their confidence. The kids have responded very well and they've worked very hard.

No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I've known Coach (Jim) Carr since the eighth grade. Plus, Gary Waters wanted me to come here from the beginning so I knew this would be a tremendous opportunity.

I would have to say the coaching in Europe is better overall, but there are exceptions,

I would probably end up going back to school and getting my degree. Maybe I would get a job coaching high school. Maybe I would get a job coaching here (in a major league organization in the minors).

I wouldn't have guessed that the support for our program would have grown this fast. The efforts of our coaching and support staffs have been incredible.

I wouldn't mind coaching for Alabama, either. If he's reading one of these articles, give me a call, coach.

When I made the decision, the timing was right. Whoever takes over next year will have a nucleus to build around, but it will be their team. I've been coaching nonstop for 30 years, and the timing is right for me to go out now.

My father was always just part of the team. He willingly accepted whatever responsibility he was given, whether it was coaching the linebackers or the junior varsity.

My husband and I started dating when I started coaching in 1989, and he puts a card and a Snickers bar in my car. Even when he's out of town, he hides the card and Snickers bar somewhere in the house and then calls and tells me where it is.

My hats off to Coach Tarver and the Howard coaching staff. They have done a great job. We had some breaks go our way. I am happy for our kids, they have worked hard and it paid off for them.

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

Oh, yeah. I caught more balls in practice than I caught in Baltimore in a season. It's a great feeling to be here in Minnesota. It's a great place; great fans; great offense; great coaching staff. All around, it's a great place.

Omar does a nice job taking care of the football. We do a good job coaching that ... stressing getting rid of the ball on time and protecting our quarterback. We do a nice job with him inside the system and don't throw a lot of high-risk plays.

Obviously with coaching turnover in this profession situations like these occur. We wish Solomon the best of luck. He's a very good player.

One of the things we like so much about the team right now is that since the Missouri game last year, this team has finished better. We've played in the fourth quarters better than any team I have been associated with in my coaching career.

One thing we want to do is eliminate the big play. I think our coaching staff and players understand (Madera) is going to score their points. We just can't give up the big plays like we did last year.

One thing they say about coaching is that losing is your best teaching tool. I've learned through a couple of tough losses. Losing has kind of been a blessing for me.

No, not at all. Whoever replaces Joe Torre has got their hands filled. He's probably been as good a manager as there's ever been in baseball for a long, long time. My thoughts right now are coaching third base for the Yankees in 2006.

One of the best things about running the camp is to be able to have small teams. There's a lot of one-on-one coaching and everyone gets to know each other. ... That's one of the cool things about the camp.

One big advantage to Penn is that it is the Big 5 and how special and unique Big 5 affiliation is. There is nothing like it in the country, so in addition to coaching at an institution such as Penn and playing and competing in the Ivy League, you always have an opportunity to compete and play against Big 5 institutions and be a part of a very special tradition of basketball.

No one saw this coming. Now they know who we are and we are going to have to come back and work even harder. It was a great ride, and I enjoyed every minute of it. For me, it was the best year of coaching in my nine years here. I felt they played for me every game and gave it their all, and that's all a coach can ask for.

Of course I miss it, there?s nothing like the adrenaline rush of coaching on Tuesday and Friday nights. But I also sleep a lot better on Tuesdays and Fridays now.

My entire life, I dreamed of playing there. I dreamed of coaching there. I don't think anybody loves that basketball program like I love it.

My experience here has been amazing. The coaching staff is super knowledgeable; they get to know you as a whole person. It's been a perfect fit.

My first head coaching job in high school stands out because it is where I really grasped the power of what a 'team' could do that talented individuals could not do alone.