Quotes About Coaching

I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

I've had some of the best years of my career at Atletico and remember the supporters, my teammates, and the coaching staff fondly.

My teammates and my coaches have all allowed me to step into my individuality and not be defined by just being a gymnast.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

All the different coaches and styles of play I've seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

We have a unique format that allows for coaching of players during the matches. We have a team aspect so your teammates are there on the bench cheering you on.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

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.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

I'm always going to be around the game of basketball. I plan to keep my options open as a player moving forward, but that's not coaching. Maybe front office work, working with teams and spreading the game, maybe teaching the game to young people, that's something that's a very big passion.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

people like John Wooden, maybe the greatest coach of all time in any sport, or Mike Krzyzewski, who is the modern-day John Wooden, sustain success for so long. You can readily see their humility.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

Professionals have coaches. Amateurs do not

Being a teacher taught me how to be organized, to have a game plan in English, History, Math. The same discipline carried over into coaching. If you are an efficient and effective coach, you start off every day with a plan. You don't just walk in there and roll out the ball. You've organized what you are going to do. You break down your offenses, your defenses, your individual skills.

Knight inspires me in a similar way. When he was coaching, Knight was a brilliant teacher, a stern disciplinarian, and a purist who thought the game should be played the right way. The practice floor was his classroom; his players were his students. And he wouldn't put up with any distractions.