Quotes About Coaching

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Some of the best times are training camp and getting your ideas in how you'd like them.

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

He went about things a certain way, but no one can say Thibs wasn't a good coach. He was a hell of a coach.

It's cheesy but my parents have been my coaches my whole life.

I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

When superstars play it is easier to guide them during a match because they don't need much guidance; they already know how to cope with high-pressure situations.

Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching staff in the best possible position to execute when it counts. And to deliver to the highly supportive fans of Cleveland a proud, intense, impassioned, all-out drive to achieve a championship.

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

Training focuses on simulations. Coaching lives in the real world with real situations.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.