Quotes About Coaching

Even though I am not going to coach in the future, if I had to pass on a recommendation, it would be to base your game on having a strong defence.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.

If you recruit a kid, and you're promising him the world, how in the world are you going to coach him in that short a period of time to do that?

I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

A lot of coaches say to me, 'We're kind of hesitant to recruit you because you're going to BYU.' I tell them, 'I'm keeping my mind open. BYU is a nice place, but I could go anywhere.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

I love it when coaches don't talk about which position they see me at. When they just refer to me as a basketball player and talk about all of the different positions they can see me playing in, I definitely listen more.

I try to get most of my stuff in so during the week everything is kind of laid out and I understand why our coaches are calling certain defenses, what the game plan looks like in reference to what the other team is doing.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

I was always harsh on myself as a player and I am the same as a coach, but it's the only way I know how to improve.

When I was in college and high school so I had it in my head that I can coach high school wrestling. Honestly, wrestling was my end all and be all, I had all my chips in that hat, that was it for me.

No, I've never had any interest in coaching, probably because I hated being told what to do when I was a player so I wouldn't like to be lecturing others now.

I'm a goofball. I'm always going to be that. I'm not going to change. If I got a head coaching job, I'm going to continue to laugh and have fun.

If you're going to coach, you need to have fun coaching.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

The head coach is the chemist.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?