Quotes About Coach

One of the things Coach Salazar always tells me is you're in just as good shape as anyone else and as long as you're in it with 400 meters to go, you can't give up.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Even the slightest trace of piety in us ought to make us feel that a God who cures a headcold at the right moment or tells us to get into a coach just as a downpour is about to start is so absurd a God he would have to be abolished even if he existed.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.

I don't want to be the athletic director at Texas, that's not my expertise. I don't want to take wins as a football coach and have someone shove me into that position because they'd think I'd like it, that I deserve it or a 'pat on the back.'

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

When they say I'm a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing - the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.

What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

Jack Good's contract at Virginia Tech stipulated that he would always be paid $1 more than the football coach.

Famed basketball coach Phil Jackson, a meditator himself, arranged to have his players—first the Chicago Bulls, and then the L.A. Lakers—learn meditation as a way to improve their focus and teamwork. Jackson finds that mindfulness assists players in paying attention to what's happening on the court moment by moment. Such precise training in attention has paid off during tense playoffs; Jackson has led more teams to championships than any coach in NBA history. Meditation

You were first-string running back last year. What happened?" – Coach "Stone's mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it." – Nick

I've been around a lot of wraiths, and he doesn't feel like that either, though. It's a strange sensation. Like human wrapped in evil." – Caleb "Oh, great. Our coach is a pig-in-the-blanket for Satan." – Nick

Nick let loose an evil laugh. It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today... Coach had to go ice himself. Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. That'll ruin his weekend. Yeah, and then some, Caleb added.

So what are you two doing here this early anyway? Bubba asked, changing the subject. Don't you have football practise? Nick let loose an evil laugh. It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today... Coach had to go ice himself. Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. That'll ruin his weekend. Yeah, and then some, Caleb added.

I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

Being a coach, I got to go home every day, [then] go out at night and have fun. I could pretty much live my normal life.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

On place-kicker Pete Rajecki having a bad camp with the Bucs because McKay made him nervous: ``I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games.