Quotes About Coach

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

A coach should go to practice with a whistle and I just clip a pen on it. It's really not complicated at all.

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.

In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

I wanted to end my career as a pro coach and if possible, in Florida.

I have never hidden my injury before, or fitness problems. Even my shoulder operation was planned after consulting the then coach Gary Kirsten and skipper MS Dhoni.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

Sometimes, as a coach, you have to somehow accept personal disappointments.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I am the coach, all I do is train the players who are put at my disposal.

In San Antonio when I was asked to say other players were better than me to help their confidence so they can play better, that was the most disrespectful thing that I've ever heard from any coach in my life.

Unfortunately, from my days as national coach were going backwards in terms of we dont see it as an investment, we see it as an expense. We just have too short-term thinking, there just arent enough people with a broader vision as to how we can actually we can make Australia a force in world football.

Klopp is a great expert in football and I always said that I'd have liked to work with him when I was in my best form. He is a complete coach, he has everything.

It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

You can't criticize a coach until he fails to win with players he recruited.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.

As a retired football coach, I know a good bit about teamwork and winning.

It was 1995, the year Ben Crenshaw won the Masters. I was watching on TV, and I remember watching him sink his final putt on the 18th hole. He broke down in tears because his coach, Harvey Penick, had just died. I sat there watching with a box of Kleenex, wiping tears from my eyes and going, 'OK, this is crazy - I'm crying over golf!'

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.