The minute you get in a five-game series, you start thinking strategy, you start thinking about adjustments. Single elimination, you’ve got to go all out, all-in. I think that affects the coaching, it affects the playing, it affects the psyche going into the game.
The one thing that saved me is that in 17 years of coaching I never had an NCAA investigator talk to one of my players. I lost games, but I lost the right way.
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
A coach these days is more of a manager than a coach. At this level, you shouldn’t really need a coach. You need someone to organise, to come up with gameplans and tactics, rather than someone who is going to do much actual coaching.
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
I didn’t get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.
I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I’m taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.
I’ve done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.
I just want to be in the middle of the order, playing solid defense, playing every day, being competitive and earning that my manager, the coaching staff, the front office, my teammates have faith that I’m going to be a helpful teammate. I want to do that until the very end.
The thrill of winning or losing, or getting on the field and coaching on Saturday afternoons, that’s all great. But it’s the association with the players, and that’s lifelong. That is the one thing you miss and you can’t substitute for it.
My coaching days are now over, and I’m proud of what I’ve achieved.
Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching… normal players.
Sometimes coaching is being hard on them, but there’s a balance. I’m fine with the word nurturing. It’s teaching in a positive way. You have to find what works for each group.
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.
You have to remember that coaching wasn’t sophisticated back then – you didn’t have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today – so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.
I always keep busy it gives you an opportunity to go through your coaching methods, your files, to see how other managers are working and re-educate yourself.
Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don’t know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.
Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It’s why coaches become coaches.
I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I’m going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, ‘There is a coaching legend.’
I am into coaching and punditry, but I do miss being able to run around and kick a football which I can’t do because of my knee. I had always been alright but it plagued my last season at Reading.
That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn’t good, I might have made a career change.
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that’s my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
That’s the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you’re in it, the more winning becomes, ‘Phew, I’m glad we won,’ and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.
Yes, when the time comes for me to hang up my boots, I would love to stay and work with the City coaching staff. It would be great to give something back like that.
I have got two paths – one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.
There’s not one year to the next that you don’t go through a number of changes, whether it’s personnel, whether it’s coaching, whether it’s scheme.
Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching ‘Monday Night Football’ with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
I would like to be coaching in the right situation if it’s a team effort and doesn’t have a bunch of mini-agendas. I want something where the school wants to win and values graduation and everybody wants to work together.
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.
There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you’re coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you’re not.
At the beginning of my career, I wasn’t coaching players like Messi.
I am in love with Celtic, so I am really happy. It was a great feeling getting to know a new team and new coaching staff. I can’t wait to get on the field and play in front of those wonderful fans.
Can I say this in a humble way – I don’t need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I’m eating Cheetos, and I’m fine.
When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening – these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.
Coaching for tackles? That’s something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.
I’m by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I’m doing the best I can in Year 1. But I’ve already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I’ll keep learning them.
The most overrated thing is that you’re a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You’re a good defensive team because you care and because it’s important to you.
When I first got into coaching, I just wanted to make it to the Mid-American Conference someday.
I can’t confirm any rumors. I’m happy doing what I’m doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.
When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.
I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching – 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.
I really enjoyed coaching.
When things go bad, the best thing to do is keep working and keep coaching.
How would I coach LeBron and Lonzo? Guess what, less coaching is the best coaching. Let them do what they do.
Everybody knows how to get prepared for an MMA fight. Everybody knows what the other person is going to do. Whereas when I did it, MMA was really style against style. Things you hadn’t seen before, you’d see for the first time. People didn’t know how to train properly for it, and the coaching wasn’t there yet, either.
Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don’t think I’m serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it’s a little bit better. That’s the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That’s how he taught us.
When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples’ careers.
We have a unique format that allows for coaching of players during the matches. We have a team aspect so your teammates are there on the bench cheering you on.
I’m happy with the confidence that Tite has shown me. He and his coaching staff have been doing a great job. My relationship with him is the best I can hope for and I always say that he cares about all the players equally, giving the same level of attention to first-team players and reserves.
We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
