Quotes About Coaching

Being in the gaffer's seat is very special.

I feel good about the four years I coached at St. John's. It's a special place to me. My kids go there. I met my wife there.

Being able to work with specialist coaches in Twenty20 cricket, I think my bowling has gone up another level.

Kids of this day and age know you don't necessarily have to specialize in one sport no matter how much society and your coaches are pushing you towards that.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know where you parked your car!

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

Ancelotti spoke to everyone as a person, not just in a coach-to-player way. That doesn't happen often in football.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

One of the few appealing things about him was that he had figured out that his personality was a problem and, in classic "get it done" style, had hired a coach to make him less of an asshole. She could see that working in his face.

Coaches? They can talk. I tell them: 'Just make sure before you open your mouth you've researched what you're about to say. Don't just say stuff. And if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.'

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

I have never made a secret of the fact I am excited about the coaching position at Bayern Munich and that I would be happy to take on this job if this unique opportunity should arise.

Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it's about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.

I never thought of coaching the Indian cricket team. I was given the offer... BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhury and MV Sridhar came to me and requested me to think on the offer. I took my time and then applied for the position.

I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.

I don't have to be world coach of the year at some point, but I would like to be named one of the best coaches one day.

The challenge of coaching a national side like England would be something different. The job is not about coaching every day.

Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.