Coach Pederson, for me, the communication we have is clear, and it’s an open line. He really respects my opinion on plays. If I’m feeling something… he instills a lot of confidence in me. That is huge.
Nobody’s more loyal than me as a football coach, I can tell you that.
I’ve always said I didn’t want to coach. But I can’t coach in college because I don’t have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.
When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started playing as a goalkeeper and it was love at first sight. Only a goalkeeper knows how it is.
Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players’ coach. Always around the guys. Someone that’s willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.
I’ve never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It’s all about where you breathe. That’s my claim to fame.
To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you’re in there.
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.
No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he’s ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.
Look at the better players of my era – Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd. They had pros they worked with from time to time, but out on Tour, thousands of miles from home, each of them learned to be his own best coach. I think Tiger can do the same.
It’s hard to be successful over the long term if you’re not unified and there’s not that synergy between coach and front office.
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
I have won one title, but PSG made me understand they are looking for a leader, a coach with a vision, and I am very happy to have their confidence.
She told me I wasn’t playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.
I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I’ll tell you what.
Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There’s value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding – and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.
El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly.
I worked with my acting coach one-on-one for hours and hours, every single day for two months, before even setting foot on set or putting on Jessica Jones’s clothes.
I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.
If the artist isn’t having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it’s game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.
I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I’d rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.
I knew as an assistant coach it wasn’t my place to overstep the head coach.
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
When you change team, and you have the right mindset and a coach who respects you, everything becomes easier.
Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.
I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, ‘I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.’ He told me, ‘We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.’
What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
Everybody needs a coach.
As America’s head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback’s idea.
I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.
I sit down with my coach to watch past performances. But I can be very critical. I don’t watch myself very often – it makes me cringe!
It’s not any one person. It’s not any one coach. It’s the team.
I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a ‘Kids on Camera’ class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn’t coming to me.
A big part of my decision is not made about whether I’m able to coach in the NHL or if I’m ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it’s about my family, it’s about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
I would love to coach. I’m not saying I’m qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
You need a long-term coach to be able to win.
I don’t want to be a coach. I see how hard that is.
I love to have the ball. That’s why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.
My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
I don’t need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
That’s the unpredictable part, and that’s what worries every coach: Protect the football. That’s why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there’s no guarantee you’re going to win it.
If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn’t recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.
If you’re a coach and your team doesn’t win, at some point you’ve got to change the coach.
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.
There aren’t many woman coaches in general, and I actually think it’s good to have a male coach. Guys and girls have different mentalities. Girls are so stressed about everything. Guys take everything much more lightly. That’s great, and it’s something we have to learn from. I think one woman on a team is enough!
