Top 101 Coached Quotes

I don’t think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

Pep is a great manager who has coached some big teams in Europe and won a lot of trophies.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

I am mindful of the fact that I played women’s college basketball, that I coached women’s college basketball.

Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don’t coach integrity violations. You fire them.

Coach Blatt’s been great! He comes with a worldly dynamic and I think that’s what our game has been lacking. He’s coached and played all over the world, so his perspective on the game of basketball is kind of different from most traditional NBA coaches. But at the same time, it makes it interesting and exciting.

I grew up playing in the schoolyard with the boy, and on the side of the grounds my dad coached on. I have a lot of fond memories.

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

My mom, she’s from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I didn’t think reaching the NBA was a possibility when I coached Derby in 1990. I was right out of college when I went there and was more concerned about playing a bit and getting that out of my system.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

My dad has always played and coached, so that’s what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it’s time to get out.

Don’t ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don’t need to be coached.

There’s plenty of times in my life I’ve coached against my brother, coached against people I’ve coached with.

All I can say is that I’m going to try to coach the way I’ve coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

I’ll never forget, Jill Ellis, the U.S. national team coach, texted me and said: ‘Welcome to the coaching fraternity, you haven’t coached unless you’ve been fired.’ It was the most powerful thing anyone could have told me. Of course it hurt like hell, but it was an important learning curve.

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

From every coach that has coached me I have learnt something.

Me and both my brothers got permits to attend Beverly because two of my uncles and my uncle’s wife all taught and coached at Beverly Hills High. But I grew up in South Central.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I’ve come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

I try not to make comparisons between who I’ve coached. And I haven’t always coached the best in the world.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don’t need a huge amount of coaching, but that’s when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren’t too many conversations in my family that haven’t centered around basketball.

My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, ‘Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.’ And I found that way to work for me.

God’s been good to me, He really has. I don’t know why he picked me out… Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can’t be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.

I’ve coached a lot of athletes over the years and it’s not new to me to work with people and create drilling structure and things for them.

I just didn’t realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

When I started out as a 12-13 year old, it was a stupid idea. I remember when I went to try to get coached by Heinz Reinkemeier and my coach Gaby, when I went and met them, India was nowhere in shooting. They said, ‘you want to win a gold at the Olympics? Why don’t you ride an elephant back home?’

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

I never feel like I’m in a rush. I’m controlling the pace. If I have the ball and hit the hole right now and get 3 yards, I feel like I can be patient, work for something, knowing I can still get the 3. It’s something that’s hard to be coached on. I just feel I’ve perfected it over time.

It’s special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

I coached a team in Brixton – Brixton United – for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

You can learn a lot. You can learn how to win. You can learn how to be coached.

Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions and Radio Disney.

I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.

I’ve coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I’ve been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don’t think I’ve ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

I’ve coached in Holland, Portugal and Spain and not only won trophies each time, but taken sides to the latter stages of the Champions League.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

I remember being coached at Liverpool, and there was another kid called Toni Silva, and they said, ‘You know, instead of blasting the ball, and it goes in, do like Toni does: pass it around the keeper.’

Well, my mum’s been a tennis coach – she coached me till I was 12.

Kids can really get better quickly. Here’s another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.

Bavaro’s probably as tough of a – physically and mentally as tough a football player as I’ve ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.

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.

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I’ll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.

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.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

I could have coached better.

I think it’s kind of silly, actually… I’ve been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn’t ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don’t – I think it’s a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.

I’m a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

I have watched and coached in the Spanish League.

I’ve had a number of kids in the NBA that I’ve coached and a number of other great players that I’ve coached.

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a lot of different types of mental work, like visualization. I read a couple of tennis books that talked about calming your nerves, belief, visualization, relaxing, breathing.

I’m just going out there and doing exactly what I’m coached and doing exactly what I’m supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that’s all he could do for me.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.

Whatever’s asked of me, I’m just going to go out there and perform my routes and how I’ve been coached all week, perform in the running game, pass blocking, run blocking, whatever it is.

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.

You can have old guys who aren’t willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren’t willing to be coached.

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.

To have a manager who has worked with top players, top strikers, who have played in my position, it’s always nice to know that when he is giving me information, he’s coached these players before so it’s important I take it on board.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

I have remained a Lazio fan and that was the strongest team I ever coached.

I’ve coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.

You can have great players, but if they don’t want to be coached, what are you going to do?

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

I coached five clubs in South Africa and I was successful with them.

I coached in Washington – and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it’s a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

I would’ve coached Barcelona for free. Well, maybe not for free, but in almost any circumstance.

Being coached by Zidane? At the start it was a little difficult, I grew up watching him play. It’s Zidane after all!

Having coached Ajax, Barcelona, the Netherlands, FC Bayern, and Manchester United like I did, it is difficult for any offer to be interesting.

My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.

Troy Walters and I coached together.

When you have been coached by Ancelotti and other greats, it’s hard to be coached by Domenech!

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into the training sessions. They are very hard taskmasters.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I feel like I’ve paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

The year I left coaching to get married, Providence College decided to put its women’s basketball games on radio, and because I had played and coached in the program, the athletic director asked if I’d like to give it a try.

I’ve been really fortunate to have coached in some moments that you can only dream about coaching in. The day after, you wake up and you try to do it again.

The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

I’m pretty sure that every player who’s ever played for me doesn’t hate me. Now, we’d have to do a survey, but I’ve coached a lot of guys, and I’m pretty sure there’s one or two that don’t hate me. I don’t know that any liked me. But I’m pretty sure there’s one or two who don’t hate me.

I don’t think you’ve ever coached till you’ve coached an Asian team.

My involvement with the USFL began in the broadcast booth before I ever coached a game in the league.

I’ve always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you’ve got to give up the ball because of one inch.

I’m a Christian, but I’ve coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.

My high school coach was Ray O’Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

My dad coached pretty much my whole life. I think he stopped coaching me when I got to the seventh, eighth grade, serious AAU, when I started getting recruited and stuff like that.

You’ve got to know the defense by watching film and by how you’ve been coached. And then when you approach it, you’ve got to be real physical. You’ve got to deliver the blow, not let the blow be delivered to you.