Quotes About Coaching

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

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

Berbatov is a great talent, there is no question about that, and as coaches and managers we demand more from great talents.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

Every coach talks to their players. Imagine not talking to Lionel Messi - that would be ridiculous.

I have good mid-range shot and I can shoot threes, but in Europe coaches didn't want me to shoot outside because I was tall and big.

From my experience I have noticed the people we coach who seemed to suffer the most weight fluctuations are actually the ones who continue restricting their food. I know that sounds crazy, but scientifically and biologically it makes sense. Not eating enough food lowers your metabolic rate, which in turn teaches your body to store more of the food you eat as fat, rather than allowing you to expend it as energy.

Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.

Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid's I've ever coached. Don't you ever forget that.

What progress has your client made over the last month, the last week, and yesterday? • Are they on track to meet their goals? • How have you been showing up as a coach (stances, EQ, sensing, meeting the clients where they are)?

Keeping vivid both the story of Pre and the truths Bowman held to be vital-namely, that we are all physical entities, that we all have the ability to get better, but to do that we have to accept our limits at any given moment and work within them. Great coaches are great because they see and help transcend those limits. If that is not an immortal message, it should be.

Maybe we honor the abusive style of so many coaches and other public figures because their public actions lend credibility to our own private outbursts.

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

Born to Win, "I Can," Coaching to Change Lives, Teaching to Change Lives, and Strategies for Success), which deal with this tremendous need

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

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.