Quotes About Coaching

If I'm coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don't just say, 'OK, now go five-minute goes,' because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?

I think Mr. Ancelotti is a coach who speaks to the players a lot, not only as a team but also with the individual player. He tries to talk to you and wants to make sure to explain to you what he wants you to do on the pitch. That's important, and if you listen to it, you're going to learn a lot.

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.

I love the trips that I've experienced as a player and a coach.

Guardiola won so many trophies at Barcelona that he had a huge impact.

Ancelotti is one of the best coaches and has proved this by winning trophies.

I've coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.

The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

I've always really respected Mark Richt. I think he's a great man, first of all, and I think he's a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.

I have to trust my trainers 100 percent.

I've seen my dad practice and, trust me, when you are 6 years old and you see that, it stays with you. My dad was a coach who taught the judo fighters and they would be throwing up because they would be so tired from working.

My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you've been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'