Quotes About Coaching

There was a time when a lot of people, including coaches, were keen that I change my bottom-handed grip.

I remember being coached at Liverpool, and there was another kid called Toni Silva, and they said, 'You know, instead of blasting the ball, and it goes in, do like Toni does: pass it around the keeper.'

You see it more and more: managers asking their keepers to be the 11th field player.

I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All those guys are incredible. They run great routes and have great hands.

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

I have been impressed by Carlo Ancelotti, Kevin Keegan, Arsene Wenger, Guus Hiddink, Christoph Daum and Sam Allardyce.

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

Women should let go their responsibilities of kitchen and should take coaching classes of how to give pleasure.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Some guys are just great basketball players and they have the knack for scoring, so people just allow them to get by with that ability without teaching them anything new, without really coaching them.

I am into coaching and punditry, but I do miss being able to run around and kick a football which I can't do because of my knee. I had always been alright but it plagued my last season at Reading.

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.

I got labeled as the guy who didn't coach and sat around and talked. I know what I do, so I don't worry about it.

Which voice do you hear? Which is louder, the negative critic or the positive coach? You can choose to listen to the voice that offers and reinforces positive thought. It has been said that thoughts become words. Words become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become character. Character becomes your destiny.

Coaches and volunteers provide what every athlete needs—encouragement and support.

Such is the curse of long-distance mushing. A guy is lucky to even cross the finish line before the little voice inside begins rehashing those poorly chosen camps, untimely naps, mistakes made packing – all the numerous ways you, the coach, failed those fine friends up front. The voice is relentless and seductive, whispering things you might try differently -next time.

The primary purpose of coaching young athletes is to use sport to teach them to become better people.

What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.

To be able to look a young man in his eyes and believe in him and trust him and push him to be better, I get more out of that than scoring 3-pointers in general.