Top 515 Coaching Quotes

If somebody is going in the wrong direction, behavioral coaching just helps them get there faster. It doesn’t turn the wrong direction into the right direction.

We’ve always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they’re going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I’m making the jump to the pros.

I will miss the day to day stuff because I love coaching. I love being out on the pitch.

I have let down many in Cleveland – my Browns teammates, our hard-working coaching staff, the team’s ownership, and the loyal fan base that wants nothing more than to win. Playing there is different than in many other cities. We feel the fans pain.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren’t suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

I’m not going to coach again. I’ve done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

I knew I wasn’t going back to Brooklyn… I never knew exactly. I just kinda – you work with these guys every day. You see the same players, you see the same coaching staff, you see the same trainers every day. So when they start to act a little different, you recognize it… I could feel it.

Heck yeah, I’d be comfortable coaching a game without any fans. If the choice were play in front of no fans or not play, then I would choose to play in front of no fans.

So I don’t really believe that how many years you’ve had in the league determines how well your players play… Coaching is coaching.

Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.

Coaching Barca involved dedicating all your energy to the team, the club, and the players. And when you see the end is coming, you have to take it in, accept it, and communicate it. There’s nothing else you can do.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player’s responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.

The coaching life is like a relay race and I’m thankful for my turn and am confident as I pass the baton.

What you’ve got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man – where being English gave you a slight advantage – or something else, you’ve got to win the players’ respect.

The reason I’m in good form is not just down to myself: it’s down to the manager and coaching staff improving my game.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I’ll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

I don’t know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

It seemed like my dad was always a thousand miles away, coaching.

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It’s an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I’m not interested in coaching international sides. I don’t mind short-term coaching. I don’t want to get involved in the politics of teams.

I’m quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it’s working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I’m four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I’m going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I’m going, ‘How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?’

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

The beauty of growing up in a coaching family, particularly one that isn’t at the very highest level, is that you get to be in the gym – that’s where you grow up.

My father’s coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

What you realize is when you have an environment and an atmosphere like we had at Marist, where guys cared about each other, the coaches were great teachers and communicators, whether it’s high school, college or pro, I think coaching is coaching.

Coaching courses are still much too theoretical, and this is what you see reflected in the basic technical skills of the average player. I even see things deteriorating.

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I’d really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I’ve got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

I just don’t know why anyone would ever think that women’s football is a step down and that coaching World Cup champions, winners, players that have represented their countries in the Olympics or European championships is a step down from anything.

What I really think of myself as is a person who’s great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

When it comes to hockey, it’s been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching.

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can’t remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they’re all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can’t remember any of them. They’re all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

When I’d watch myself coaching, I’d say, ‘Man, I look bad,’ but I never felt I didn’t have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.

UCLA was recruiting me before the coaching change, and when the new staff came in I was not sure, but Coach Alford and the whole staff made me feel comfortable, especially on my official visit.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

If I ever want to get back into coaching I should be calling teams they shouldn’t be calling me. That’s when you know you really want to do it.

No, I don’t miss playing. I love coaching that much. Maybe if we’re short of a player in training I would make the numbers up, but that is as far it goes.

There have been many a days in coaching where I’ve said, What was I thinking? Because it is not the easiest job in the world. But it is very fulfilling, not because of the results you achieve but because of the relationships you build.

The key to coaching is love. It’s not knowledge; it’s not discipline. If you love ’em, you can discipline them. If you love ’em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.

I’ve never had any complaints about my coaching ability.

Coaching is more enjoyable than playing.

During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph’s won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments – including seven NCAA appearances – and reached the Final Four in 1961.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

Well, I think it’s pretty much established that I just didn’t have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I coach for my dad’s academy. Sometimes it’s just about being there – it’s not just the coaching – it’s seeing that you are there to inspire or they are trying to impress you.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that’s the reward right there.

Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It’s the out-of-season stuff I didn’t handle well.