Quotes About Coaching

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Former greats didn't necessarily make great coaches.

Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It's not the norm in Italy.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Van Gaal gave me all the confidence I could ask for. He made me striker, my favorite position.

I was sad when Van Gaal left the national team, but I was also sad when Hiddink left.

You have to bear in mind where Louis van Gaal has worked before. His self-belief is bigger than Jose Mourinho's.

Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.

Simeone, De Boer, Van Basten - fantastic names to have worked with.

This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.

As to adding variations to my white ball bowling, ever since I started playing IPL, I realised you need variations. You can't survive on line and length. You need coaches around you who can guide you to get there. I have been lucky that I have had seniors and coaches who have helped me get there.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

My dream is to become an important coach of a great team, possibly Juventus. So, I'm observing and putting aside all the secrets of the various coaches that I have had to try to get the best out of myself.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

Duke has coached a lot of players who were versatile.

You spend a lot of time as a coach going through every possible scenario. That's the kind of level of depth and versatility you have to go through. When I did that, things started to really fall into place.

As an assistant coach at Picayune High School, he helped a team that had gone 0–10 the year before…to go 0–10 again. "With all my expertise in coaching," he wrote, "we came close to winning a game.

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.