I want to make it clear, I’m not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that’s what I want to do.
I don’t like to make comparisons, as it’s different coaching a Spanish team to coaching a German or English team. Each country has their style, more or less, and within each country, they have different styles.
I think coaching Steve Nash is easy no matter if it’s a good or bad start.
I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn’t know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, ‘Oh my God, they gave me the job.’
It is time for everyone to sit down – the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity – and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
A lot of the best managers in the game were forced into it by financial necessity. From Sir Alex Ferguson to Jurgen Klopp, their main incentive to move into coaching after their playing careers was to make a living.
Since I started CrossFit, I’ve read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don’t have the proper coaching, education and guidance.
You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there’s nothing else you could have done.
When you think about 19 years, it has been a heckuva ride. Physically, I want to be able to participate in activities with my kids, so it has taken a toll. It is time to move on and think about maybe coaching or doing some broadcasting.
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
Most coaches that I saw in my time off weren’t very happy in coaching, and I committed to my wife, Sally, if I was going back, I was going to be happy.
I went through five different coaching changes at Fulham.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.
I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.
Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.
Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don’t have any.
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It’s like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren’t doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.
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.
Coaching is competitively addictive. It just gets in your blood, especially if you win.
I read a couple books on democratic coaching.
No, I’m not coaching. It’s a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
I feel running is far easier than coaching.
Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.
My first experience out of my country was Ecuador. That was a very good option for me. To know how you can develop your coaching style or your personality being away and being alone, that is not easy.
I think it is a sign that the team cares about the game and everyone else on the team and the coaching staff. Everyone comes in to work and that is all that you can ask for.
I’d be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn’t enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I’m sure I would have never left.
One of my greatest regrets in coaching is the Butler Final Four runs, because if I would have been a seasoned coach, I think we would have won.
I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.
Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That’s normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I’ve played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.
I knew I was going to have to work my way back to coaching in the States, and I had a job offer here before I went to Japan, but I thought it was the right thing to get away. I had some friends over there.
It’s important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child’s interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
It’s never a good sign when many players leave the club or when you have many coaching changes, because it brings a lot of distraction to the team and the club.
I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
Coaching’s not a job, it’s a privilege.
I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.
I’m a goofball. I’m always going to be that. I’m not going to change. If I got a head coaching job, I’m going to continue to laugh and have fun.
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn’t won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn’t want to listen.
My passion for coaching is immense. I’ve fallen in love with it. I enjoy the structure. I love the hard work, organising. I love putting a plan together through the week and executing it at the weekend.
I would hope people remember the playing days first, and not the coaching years.
It was really difficult being away from MMA because it’s been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don’t.
I’m interested in coaching.
I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me – not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.
I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I’m the assistant – you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I’m trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn’t be the player that I am today.
In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.
The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That’s put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who’s the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.
Governor Pawlenty’s commitment to faith and family is not a product of coaching by campaign consultants.
You can play all the games you want as a professional footballer, but when you go into coaching it’s just totally different.
I can definitely see myself coaching, I’m not sure what level, but I do love teaching and giving back what I’ve learned on this journey of mine. Yeah, Coach Tay does have a nice ring to it.
