Top 500 Coaches Quotes

I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN ‘Coaches Corner’ show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn’t know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can’t say he’s not in the top five, certainly.

When I stopped playing and became a coach, I realised that in the past, all the arguments that I had with my coaches were mainly focussed on the technical aspects, and probably that was the biggest signal that I had to have things done my way!

Some of my best experiences have been at KU and I’m thankful for my teammates, coaches and all the people that support KU.

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself – I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.

If we’re going to ask our players to be coachable, we’ve got to be coachable as coaches as well. That displays an ownership and an accountability that we try to all have and makes the players more receptive to the messages we try to implement.

I don’t focus on how I’m gonna get the finish or how I would like to get the finish. I focus on just my game plan that I’ve gone over with myself, my coaches. If the finish comes it comes.

The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.

My coaches taught me a lot is about taking the first touch positive, and I think that’s what I’ve tried to base my game off of. A big part of it is being aggressive.

When I put my head in my hands after missing a chance, that annoys the coaches a little.

I can see the whole field. I don’t know why. Most coaches can see two or three guys.

I work my tail off to make sure that our city, our fans, our team, our coaches can enjoy winning.

It’s easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

I’ve been really lucky, played with a lot of great players, lot of great coaches.

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I’m the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They’re not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.

There’s a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they’re having. They’re not.

I work with one of the best striking coaches in the world, Henri Hooft.

I want to say thank you Arsene Wenger for your legacy. For all the coaches in the world, he is a reference. We learned, I learned from him all the things in football.

I love my teammates. I love my coaches.

But it’s been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They’re our employees.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.

Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They’ve prepared me for the real world. I’m really going to miss that. But I feel like they’ve prepared me for the real world, to be a man.

It is like football with coaches, like, ‘We’re only going to think about the next game.’ It is really true, all you think is, ‘Okay, we have to make a good next episode.’

Coaches help every facet of a person’s life.

The more you’re at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

The best thing I can say is that I put it all on the line for my teammates, my family, and my coaches.

I think all coaches have their own way of doing things.

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, ‘Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.’ I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches… in year 11.

At the end of the day, it’s not where you get drafted. It’s not going to set you in stone with how good you’re going to be in your NFL career. Obviously, it’s being surrounded by the right people, the right coaches, how you present yourself, how you work hard.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.

I’ve been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don’t get any.

I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

A lot has to be the NBA. I don’t know if I can say it is the egos of the players or the money that goes around and everything. But those relationships between the coaches and the players are just not the same. They are not even close to the European coach-player relationships.

My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I’m ready to fight and take it to the next level.

Over my NFL career, I’ve had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi – when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.

I think it’s very important for the Chinese people, the Chinese government to build lots of hockey rinks, bring some coaches here and learn the game, and I think they will do well.

You don’t normally get to hear that, you don’t normally get to hear your coaches yelling at you from the sideline when you got fans there.

Don’t get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don’t get on his bad side.

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World’s multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

Learning from the best is easy and it isn’t just footballers, coaches should also learn.

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It’s difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

You can’t just can’t simply replace head coaches and say, ‘Now it’s going to be better.’

The concept of ‘The Voice’ has received acclamation worldwide. There will be blind auditions where the coaches will pick contestants without seeing them. It will be a unique concept for the Indian audience.

In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there’s more of them than us players.

I’ve found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who’s always inactive on Sundays… I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

When you get minutes and you have the trust of the coaches and guys just letting you play your game and be yourself, it definitely helps.

I watch a couple of fights to get a visual image in my head. I don’t like doing a lot of research on my opponents; I leave that to my coaches.