Quotes About Coaching

Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.

The year I left coaching to get married, Providence College decided to put its women's basketball games on radio, and because I had played and coached in the program, the athletic director asked if I'd like to give it a try.

We live in a society in which female weight is both fetishized and also under so much scrutiny. And so trying to shame somebody into losing weight is just such, I mean, an emotionally, psychologically and mentally traumatizing way to coach somebody.

That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

You almost need a psychology degree to be a manager these days. Even with Fabio Capello - who may not have done too well with England - you could tell why he had been so successful in the past. He had real authority.

My best games for England were under Eddie Jones. Eddie got the best out of me. He understood that I needed an arm around me, needed my tyres pumped up.

You can't make the kid feel like he just made three mistakes in a row and you're pumping him up. No. There's a balance to it. It's, 'Listen, here's why you did what you did. Don't do it next time, and you'll be OK.'

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.

It wasn't until Joe Maddon called me in 2006 when I thought about pursuing a coaching career.

One of my coaches encouraged me to try it. In the beginning, I didn't want to take any free-kicks but he pushed me to do it. Then I started scoring a few goals and everything changed.

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

Coach Snyder puts guys in a lot of good positions. A lot of screen-and-rolls.

When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.

For me, coaching in the NFL doesn't fit. I coach high-school football, so I get my fix.

I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.

I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.

Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

I say college football began with Rockne.