Quotes About Coaching

Usually, you can live very well for two, three months, then you're in trouble. Every coach, I think, is like this. For two months, you're happy because you have time, and after two months, you miss adrenaline.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

Mourinho has taught me to be especially aggressive on the pitch, and now I'm going crazy trying to win every ball.

In terms of playing for my father, that was an amazing experience that me and him got to do. But that was that.

I did not enjoy David Moyes' training sessions. Eventually I lost my love for the game and went into the dressing-room feeling annoyed every day.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.

I want to go to China or coach or play arena football.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

To Coach Brantford, I could do almost nothing right. He told me that I didn't play tough enough, I didn't hit anybody and that my skating and passing needed a lot of work. If you came to a practice or a game, you'd have never known that I scored 25 goals & had 39 assists what with Coach Brantford always harping on me about something I was doing wrong.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

I'm not coach D'Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot of us have stolen from him.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

Im keen to keep coaching for a very long time. Im not in old at 52 in coaching terms, Ive still got quite a few years ahead of me and Ill back myself in any league or in any position to have success.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

If high-quality content can be effectively delivered via technology, teachers can devote more time to creating innovative experiences, leading Socratic dialogs, or coaching students one-on-one in more targeted and focused interventions.

We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.

Bielsa certainly had his own methods. He brought in laptops and showed us videos of where to be on the pitch in terms of position. They were strange little things, but that's why we learnt a lot under him.

I started watching my own videos, rectifying mistakes and talking to our coaches. But there is a limit to self-learning but the past 8-9 years have helped me become self-reliant.