Quotes About Coaching

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.