Quotes About Coach

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

In the past, we showed that we could play football, but Vladimir Petkovic has worked with us on the psychological side of things in particular. I think that's where we've made the most progress. He's brought us closer together as a team.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

Mourinho is a great coach. He has told me he believes in me, both in person but also publicly.

It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.

From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard, and the coach always put me with older boys because of that.

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

Well, any teacher or coach derives his greatest pleasure in their profession or their process when they see their pupil succeed, so I would say I definitely enjoy that part of the game.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

I want coach to be tough on me. That's the only way, I feel, if you're pushed, it will make you play better.

Every player that I've ever been around that's worth a damn wants to be challenged and wants to be pushed, and wants to be coached hard, and wants to be held accountable.

Coach Winkeljohn is hell on pads, that guy pushes you so hard.

My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.

I wasn't happier for anyone more than Vic Fangio. He deserved to be a head coach, in my opinion. I was really pulling for him and pushing him whenever I got a chance.

This is the world you live in when you're a football player, an athlete. You want someone to discipline you. You want to have consistency. You want a guy that puts you in position so that you can have success.

Seventh grade is when I met my shooting coach and he fixed my shot. I used to shoot with two hands. Really ever since is when my I started to shoot real well.

Admiration from a coach like Mourinho is definitely something that flattered me. It's confirmation of hard work and good performances.

Let me be clear: Despite his flaws, I respect Andy Reid as a coach and as a person.