Quotes About Coaching

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.

I'm pretty sure that every player who's ever played for me doesn't hate me. Now, we'd have to do a survey, but I've coached a lot of guys, and I'm pretty sure there's one or two that don't hate me. I don't know that any liked me. But I'm pretty sure there's one or two who don't hate me.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

A good coach will come in ra, ra, ra and rejig the whole set-up. That might work for a year or 18 months but isn't sustainable. A great coach has the ability to get the best out of his players without the ra, ra, ra stuff.

There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.

The problem in Sweden is that, when the players are younger, they are not allowed to develop their own style and skills.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun.

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

My college coach was like, 'You ever thought of switch hitting,' and I was like, 'You know, I thought about it but I never really tried it.'

Yeah, I don't know whether it would be a coach's dream to coach the world No1 or a double-edged sword.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Most coaches don't want to do something unless they think of it. Morgan has never had that kind of ego. He sees something good, someone gives him an idea, if it makes sense to him, he uses it. He never needs credit, never needs to prove he's the smartest guy in the room.

You got to be lucky. Like, for example, one time in the seventh game of a playoff, somebody took a shot -- I think it was Nelson or Ramsey or Sam -- and it hit the backboard, hit the rim, rolled around, went in, and made me a hell of a coach. You know what I mean?

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

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

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.

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik's military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. "It all came from Red Blaik.

Year by year, as his reputation grew beyond Englewood, it became clearer to him that coaching was his life's calling. Football coach was not what Harry and Matty had expected of their son, nor what his old classmates had predicted. In some ways it was a job below his own self-image. All of which worked in his favor. During his years in Englewood, Lombardi was driven by a contradiction, consumed by a sport and somewhat embarrassed that it was considered merely a game.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.