Quotes About Coaching

It's really important for a young guy to have a coach who wants to improve you and believes in you.

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

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.

No person is the same, and so you can't treat each player identically.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported by tele-health care and coaching.

I never dreamed I would coach at UCLA. It was not one of those things in my coaching career I thought would happen. It's a tremendous blessing, and I'm going to make the most of it.

Pep Guardiola was technically one of the best coaches, a tremendous enrichment. But I had the feeling that he thinks only in the grid and leaves out the people and the outside.

You learn a lot as a coach when you sit back and tell someone what to do, and then you realize, 'Hey, I need to start doing that myself.' I think coaching can improve a fighter's game tremendously.

There was a time when I was studying in school when one of my coaches clearly told me I shouldn't be bowling at selection trials. We had a couple of off spinners from our own school and he said that if I bowled off spin, their chances would get affected. So, I didn't really bowl at the trials till I was in my late teens.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

Winning a Grand Slam was something I was chasing the first day I became a coach.

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

During most of my playing career, the performance gap between men and women was slowly narrowing. Federations began providing more coaching and competitions for girls and women.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.