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Quotes About Coaches

Diagnosticians of society should play their mission coldly and clinically. They should not be compelled to minister to morale. That should be left to coaches, therapists, clerics, or the like. If a commentator perceives a situation to be hopeless, he should say so.
~ Randall Kennedy
It's impossible for me to separate the miracle that we achieved as a team with the memories and gratitude I have for all the people who helped me get there, from my mother and father, my sisters and brothers, to 10 years worth of coaches and friends and teammates.
~ Wayne Coffey
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
~ Danny McBride
Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.
~ Dave Ferguson
It's mostly the coaches the refs don't like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they're against his team, playing mind games.
~ Tim Donaghy
Coaches were all saying that I was really talented and I had potential, but coming from Serbia, it wasn't easy. The '90s were the hardest years for our country - we went through two wars.
~ Ana Ivanovic
Barcelona has always had calm coaches.
~ Jordi Alba
I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.
~ Oliver Luck
The Canadian teams just have great training and great coaches and that's sort of why there's the expectation that they're going to win. But there's a lot of really good teams coming out of the European countries.
~ Brendan Bottcher
I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
~ Bud Grant
When you're not dealing with superstars, coaches want players to fit their system. But superstars are the system.
~ Jared Dudley
I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.
~ AB de Villiers
I've loved every moment at Kentucky with my coaches and support staff.
~ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.
~ Donna Shalala
Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.
~ Bob Stoops
Great players don't always make great managers, but I hope a golden generation of fantastic players' knowledge is not going to be lost when they surely have something to offer as coaches.
~ Robbie Savage
When I tell people that I get interviewed five or six times more than I will interview players or coaches leading up to the game that comes as a surprise. That's part of it and it just goes with being part of a Super Bowl broadcast team. I enjoy it.
~ Jim Nantz
Of course, coaches are Humans. They tend to do things the way they have always been done, because those decisions will not be second-guessed by the boss. As Keynes noted, following the conventional wisdom keeps you from getting fired.
~ Richard H. Thaler
All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.
~ Joe Paterno
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
~ Dan Gable
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
~ Vince Lombardi
I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.
~ Tim Tebow
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
~ Michael Gartner
I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.
~ Geno Auriemma