Quotes About Coaching

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

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

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

As coaches, we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like it's at one position. Sometimes it's across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.

My head coach in Minnesota, Dennis Green, loved wideouts with plenty of size.

There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.

I'm not saying coaching has never crossed my mind. But it's worth pointing out that if I decided tomorrow that I wanted to be a manager and I started getting my badges through the FA, it would take me four and a half years to complete my training.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

Every coach wants to train Manchester United; it's one of the biggest clubs in the world.

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

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

I've made up my mind. Lugano was my last World Championships as a coach.

Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn't appeal.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.