Quotes About Coaching

With the athletes, there's a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there's not that much diversity there. I think it's diversity within those roles that's needed.

It just feels good to talk to the coaches and know what they're expecting so I can get better and just be happy.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

Bobby Petrino slinks through coaching jobs with the stench and trustworthiness of expired mayonnaise.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.

Unai's very positive and always telling you to express yourself, but also he's got that thing where he'll tell you if you do something wrong.

I like to communicate, I'm very expressive with my players.

With Ancelotti I played less, but he did extraordinary things at Real and this is what counts.

The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate.

Coaches help every facet of a person's life.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.

I hate false nines.

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

My father was a very fun dad. He was always coaching our soccer sports teams; he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people.

Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.