I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That’s the one thing I’ve never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.
The Dream didn’t need to struggle. He’s homegrown talent, straight from the WWE Performance Center, trained by the best coaches in the world: Norman Smiley, who’s known from coast-to-coast, Matt Bloom, head trainer, and I am protege of the one-and-only The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.
I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, ‘Hey, we’ve got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You’ve got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can’t happen.’
I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I’ve lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone’s here, and I feel English.
Coach Coughlin, he’s one of the best coaches I’ve ever had. He’s one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.
As to adding variations to my white ball bowling, ever since I started playing IPL, I realised you need variations. You can’t survive on line and length. You need coaches around you who can guide you to get there. I have been lucky that I have had seniors and coaches who have helped me get there.
Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You’ve got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things – confidence, improvement, recruiting.
From making my international debut as a 16-year-old to now 37, it has been a good 21 years of my prime life spent not at home but at the ground – different countries, hotels, grounds, coaches, travel etc. It’s been a very privileged journey.
Bayern fulfilled every wish, no matter what Guardiola wanted: the players, the coaches, and even the doctors. He caused much disturbance off the field. But he is one of the best coaches on the planet.
Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches – their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.
There’s an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
That’s the great thing for coaches… we’ll find more things where we can get better.
Sportspersons at the grassroots must get world class exposure in terms of coaches, facilities, physical trainers and mental trainers so that a strong foundation is laid at the base. That’s the key to success.
Go out there and play hard, understand your teammates, understand the other team’s gameplan, understand your coaches’ philosophies and what they want you to do. There’s nothing better than showing, though; more than talking, you have to make your actions speak louder than words.
Just listen to your coaches; pay attention to what they’re telling you to do.
Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.
It’s been tough throughout my career having different coaches and different philosophies, different style of plays throughout this entire time.
I’ve played for some really good coaches, been on some really good teams. I learned a lot.
The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.’s, parents, and anyone else in charge.
First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai’i was a brilliant idea.
I’ve lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.
I think it’s important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be ‘liked’ by whoever on Chatrun.
Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.
It’s been years since I’ve had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I’ve just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
Every year you’ve got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.
I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, ‘Go home and coach basketball.’
You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it’s tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That’s where the conflicts come.
I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it’s being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That’s important to me.
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it – and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn’t make it go away.
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.
I was at Madrid for 17 years and, save for Vicente del Bosque and Jose Mourinho, I never saw any coaches stay for many years.
I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.
In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, ‘If we go there, and we come back with one point, it’s okay.’ Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.
I’ve been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I’m getting better with it.
When one talks about six coaches in four seasons something’s wrong, something bad’s going on.
I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.
During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.
I feel like I’ve paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.
It definitely would be an honor to be an All-Star. But I have no say in it. It’s not up to me. It’s up to the fans and coaches.
There are always people you can turn to for help and advice. Former coaches, people I used to play with in Belgium and in England. It is good to have people you can look to for support, but in the end you are out on the pitch on your own and you have to come through it for yourself.
High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.
I’ve had so many coaches that have helped me along the way through my journey, who understand me and know me as a person.
That whole thing about, ‘Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.’ Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they’re not all there, but sometimes they are.
For players, during our active career, it is always difficult to talk about coaches – whether it is former or a current.
Kids of this day and age know you don’t necessarily have to specialize in one sport no matter how much society and your coaches are pushing you towards that.
HIL boasts of a high-class list of players and coaches like Ric Charlesworth, Barry Dancer, etc.
I’m not a player that gets angry, especially not with coaches.
My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.
You just have to adapt to what is needed at that moment, whereas as coaches are going crazy, because they’re used to having and following a schedule. Everything’s laid out in front of them on when they’re going to practice and when they’re going to take a plane to this city.
The one thing you can’t ever forget – the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself.
When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 – you know, to get an ‘easy one’ first.
All the coaches want to win every match, every coach is working to win every match.
I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.
In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they’re the reason their teams are winning.
Some things are ridiculous and just as us players and coaches need to improve, so does VAR.
Coaches would have me in the gym do 1,000 kicks for a practice. I would do them until everyone was gone, until I had done all my kicks. People asked me why I would do it – that’s stupid. But my coach told me to do something like that, and I knew it would benefit me, and I would do it.
