Quotes About Coaching

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball when the reverse happens?

It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.

I have to give all the solutions and feedback to my players if we want to improve.

My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That's my deal.

There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

When I first got into coaching, I just wanted to make it to the Mid-American Conference someday.

I would love to go into coaching someday.

Often those on the more able end of the spectrum may be considered too high functioning by the systems in place to require any type of support, yet access to someone who could coach them a few hours a week would make all the difference in their lives.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

We have to remember, Mourinho worked at Barcelona. He has good memories of Barcelona. The club did well when he was here.

I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.

I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.

Luke Walton was the worst coach ever for Lonzo 'cause he had a losing mentality.

Coaches like Alan Stubbs were quite hard on me but that helped a lot. It was the best thing that could have happened. It really hardened me up physically and mentally.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.

I had four seasons with Brondby in Denmark and they were crucial, mentally. The first two seasons there, I score nine goals, then nine goals. Then we get a new coach, Alexander Zorniger. A German guy. The next two seasons, I score 20 then 17.