Quotes About Coaching

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

We're dealing with men here. What we're trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we're all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players' respect is, do you make them a better football player?

Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

You can't have enough good football players.

It is not easy to change things in a footballer that other coaches told him were very good.

I'm going to continue to see my friends who coach in the NBA and see my former players who play in the NBA. I'm going to continue to go to games.

If you talk to my former coaches, they'll tell you that I'm really smart on the football field.

As a former cricketer you want to give something back.

I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached.

Passion? Of course it's necessary, but it's more important to have footballing foundations, certainly, when developing players.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

Coaching is really a big fraternity. You can get in if you know the right people.

1958 was my first year as a defensive backfield coach at Florida State. I remember one thing about that game: It was so cold. It was freezing.

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

There have been many a days in coaching where I've said, What was I thinking? Because it is not the easiest job in the world. But it is very fulfilling, not because of the results you achieve but because of the relationships you build.

I've been lucky enough to have good coaches my whole career who just teach you the right way, teach you the fundamentals.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Women face discrimination in sport the world over. The reason we don't have more Serena Williams is because we don't really have the same facilities and coaching for women that we do for men.

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.