A lot of people have said, ‘Why not take a smaller school head job?’ I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
Irrespective of whether Anil Kumble is the coach or Ravi Shastri, what’s more important is that India wins.
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
When you become a head coach, you’ve played the game; you’ve coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
I don’t judge people. I don’t even judge people on ‘The Voice.’ I’m a coach. I’m there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.
The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.
I’m a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.
There’s a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he’s sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I’ve always been around it. I’ve always had that connection. Always.
I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.
Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.
Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
That’s a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.
You can’t be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he’s great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.
My dad’s a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey.
I am tired of hearing about Coach Harbaugh; I think he needs to get in check with reality because, at the end of the day, you can’t talk smack about a rivalry when you haven’t won a rivalry game. You got to win ballgames to be able to talk behind it.
It’s not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
‘How’ is a great thing to know. ‘Why’ is the ultimate. I’m the ‘why’ coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.
I’ve always respected Coach Frank. I kind of publicly recruited him because I really need him and want him. I’m kind of the college recruiter now because he brings a lot to the table. He’s had success here and understands the good and the bad, so I’m recruiting him to join my staff.
The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.
Involvement in my kids’ sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I’ve also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
I wasn’t the most well-liked person in Canton. I was a coach’s son who played quarterback. It was tough at times.
When I was 19, I went door to door selling long-distance phone service to put myself through school. I was studying to become a computer graphic technician. I always got strangers saying, ‘You should model; you should act.’ A co-worker finally said, ‘Go see this acting coach.’
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
I’m a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I’ve grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.
The influence of a high school coach can be so powerful.
I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.
Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She’s a perfect coach.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
If you’re a coach, you’ve got to have a lot of confidence in what you’re doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you’re a coach.
I can’t tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.
I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I’ll always be a coach. I’m always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that’s something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
I think any actor can relate to the feeling of ‘Just tag me in, coach, give me a chance.’ Athletes go through the same thing. To be quite honest, most people in any job or career probably go though that, when you want a chance to prove what you can do, or somebody is taking away a chance at something you can do.
I won coach of the year at the ESPYs, but I didn’t go to ESPYs. That’s not me. I don’t want the attention.
They gave me my career. Coach O and LSU resurrected my career and made me what I am today.
A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.
If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he’s lost the team.
I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.
You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.
My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.
I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don’t have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
So you’re dealing with a coach, and you’re dealing with a guy who’s actually experienced NBA basketball from a player’s perspective and actually goes about it that way.
It’s very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.
I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
I’m a head coach. I’m not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.
My coach has taught me since 5 years old, and he stresses not just the quality of training but the mental part. Technique and the mental game have to mesh, balance.
Being the Barca coach is different to being the coach at another club because you have to adapt to the philosophy of the club. At other clubs, maybe you have the freedom to adapt the team to your way of thinking. Here, that’s not the case.
My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn’t interested in what they had to say.
It’s the coach’s job to pick the system, we just try and implement it as best as we can.
I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it’s like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
