Quotes About Coaching

I'm very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I've had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.

The first thing I usually do after a fight is apologize to my coaches because I didn't do one damn thing they told me to do.

When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

The one thing that saved me is that in 17 years of coaching I never had an NCAA investigator talk to one of my players. I lost games, but I lost the right way.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

I've done all the coaching badges at St George's and the one thing I find very difficult, let alone get a job, is to even get an interview.

The one thing that's easy to do is go and sign players. What you've got to try and do is try and improve them, and get better.

I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.

I knew I was going to have to work my way back to coaching in the States, and I had a job offer here before I went to Japan, but I thought it was the right thing to get away. I had some friends over there.

If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that's the reward right there.

The right coach will help you see what is getting in the way of making progress and may help shed some light on other steps you might take to overcome obstacles.

Agreeing to behave according to our accountability model makes it easier to coach one another, exchange feedback, and conduct the conversations that are needed to work through difficult challenges and ensure progress.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

The best I can explain this uncharacteristic outburst is that I had seen a coach go ballistic on TV, and the actor in me overtook the coach.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine-and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

We accept the fact that being a parent requires a fundamental level of trust in the community of people around your child. If every coach is assumed to be a podophile, then no parent would ever let their child leave the house. And no sane person would ever volunteer to be a coach. We default to truth even when that decision carries terrible risks because we have no choice. Society cannot function otherwise.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.