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Quotes About Coaching

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
~ Brendan Rodgers
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
~ Gary Carter
I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.
~ Kevin Garnett
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
~ Pat Summitt
I've got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.
~ Frank Vogel
Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different.
~ Kirby Smart
I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
~ Ara Parseghian
People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura,and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.
~ Rafael Benitez
The whole reason I moved to the U.S. to be coached by Alberto Salazar is to be able to improve 1 or 2 per cent. I was sick of coming sixth in the world, seventh in the world, and get close to a medal, but not quite there, half-a-second.
~ Mo Farah
Some of the hard part of coaching is to be able to drag people over to the next side. People are comfortable with doing business a certain way. When that business kind of shifts to get people to change, it's not easy. It's a process.
~ Mike D'Antoni
All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.
~ Sid Gillman
My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn't interested in what they had to say.
~ Samantha Ponder
Jurgen Klopp is actually more active on the sidelines than some of his colleagues. For us players, this is very motivating. He gives us extra energy on the pitch through his coaching.
~ Naby Keita
When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn't really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.
~ Sunil Chhetri
It was pleasing to see Jon Lewis confirmed as England's new bowling coach. I actually lived with Jon for a couple of years as part of the deal when I first signed for Sussex.
~ Jofra Archer
I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
~ Anne Donovan
There's a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.
~ Jeanie Buss
Mourinho and I have similarities in our careers. We didn't play professionally but our way of playing is not the same.
~ Julian Nagelsmann
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.
~ Tom Landry
A heartfelt, empathetically present, incrementally inspiring mom or dad or coach can liberate an ambitious child to take the world by the horns. As
~ Josh Waitzkin
I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He's always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.
~ Frank Vogel
I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.
~ Erik Prince
Nuno works with each player individually. He has worked with me tactically, on where I have to move and when I have to move.
~ Adama Traore