Quotes About Coaching

The coaches at Duke really helped me get better.

I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.

I know that us girls aren't the easiest to coach.

A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.

I thought I'd be an English teacher and a baseball coach somewhere.

I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.

Eric Steele was a great goalkeeping coach who always looked after me, and I will remember that.

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

Master teachers and coaches don't stand in front; they stand alongside the individuals they're helping. They don't give long speeches; they deliver useful information in small, vivid chunks.

One does not become a master coach by accident.

A lot of coaches can yell or be nice, but what Pop does is different," says assistant coach Chip Engelland. "He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.

When you practice a soft skill, focus on making a high number of varied reps, and on getting clear feedback. Don't worry too much about making errors—the important thing is to explore. Soft skills are often more fun to practice, but they're also tougher because they demand that you coach yourself. After each session ask yourself, What worked? What didn't? And why?

At the end of the season, each coach gets a leather-bound keepsake book containing the menus and wine labels from every dinner.

Avoid Giving Sandwich Feedback:

master coaching is something more evanescent: more art than science. It exists in the space between two people, in the warm, messy game of language, gesture, and expression.

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While self-flagellation seems motivating—especially to Americans, whose mental models of motivation often begin with howling, red-faced, vein-popping football coaches—it often produces helplessness. Self-compassion, by contrast, prompts people to confront their difficulties head-on and take responsibility for them, researchers have found.

Too often we forget that "discipline" really means "to teach"—not "to punish.

Obviously, like anything else, I have views on how we should play defense but I don't call the defensive plays. I have views on how I want us to run our offense but I don't call our offensive plays. It's in collaboration with Phil Snow, with Joe Brady, with all of our coaches.

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision.