Quotes About Coaching

People go on about my style of play. But I tell you what I do - I go into football clubs, I try to find out what systems suit the players and I try to get the damnedest out of those players. That's what I've done everywhere I've been.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.

Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

I want to be able to coach people, impact people, win football games and hopefully win a Super Bowl.

Q. What is the difference between coaching and mentoring? A. Coaching generally has to do with success in the current position, with some emphasis—say, 10 to 15 percent—on the next position. Mentoring is the reverse. Most of the emphasis is on the future, probably 80 to 85 percent; only 15 to 20 percent is focused on current performance.

How did I bridge the gap from depression to elation? Well, I worked hard at improving all aspects of my game. I got stronger mentally and physically. I had good coaching, I studied the other players, and I learned from the history of the NBA. I gained confidence, ability, and intelligence. In short:I learned the game within the game.

If today's churches, companies and organizations want to be thriving tomorrow, they have an obligation to coach and mentor the new generation of leaders.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

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I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.

When I discipline, I am helping my people, teaching them and coaching them, to be the best they can be. When I see a gap between how they are performing and how they should be performing, I look at it as an opportunity to help them raise their game. It's another opportunity to serve them.

Alterman had hired a professional ASL interpreter from the Somerville School for the Deaf. Her credentials were impeccable. She was terrific and we had very carefully coached Jennie and rehearsed her testimony. For days on end we rehearsed what Jennie was to say. If she were human I am sure it would have been illegal, coaching the witness the way we did.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

There's not one year to the next that you don't go through a number of changes, whether it's personnel, whether it's coaching, whether it's scheme.

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

To be able to get a young player to perform a drill or execute a phase of play - that's satisfying. I get happy and think he's learned, and that's what I enjoy.

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

I think any time you have Phil Jackson involved in any organization, you're going to definitely look at it, and it's definitely intriguing. The Knicks are definitely a place where anybody would like to go.