I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don’t want to coach anywhere else. I don’t believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it’s tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That’s where the conflicts come.
I don’t want to lose myself in football and that’s what a coach has to do to be successful.
If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.
Ironically, being a coach on ‘The Voice’ and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
I’m involved in some action scenes, so they’ll train me for that. I’ll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man – raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.
My teammates at Duke – all of them, black and white – were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.
I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, ‘Go home and coach basketball.’
I like to address all parts of my game, but I’m really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.
You coach to your personality.
I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
It’s definitely harder being a dad than a coach.
I didn’t really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
I don’t want to be an invisible coach. I want to provide guidelines to solve problems, coming from the base I have, as I had to work a lot considering I did not play at Barca until I was 17.
Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.
It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing ‘Sex and the City.’
That’s what you don’t see about coach Saban. He’s a very funny guy.
I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That’s the reason I am here.
Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don’t need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it’s a game.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
You don’t have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he’s looking at me for which position.
I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors… within about 24 months.
When I was15 years old, I couldn’t look at the NFL and look on TV and say, ‘Boy, there’s a head coach, African American. That’s something I’d like to do.’
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.
Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won’t talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.
When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn’t have anything which is, live with. I didn’t have a friend so I didn’t have a coach anymore.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
I can’t walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don’t come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he’s their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, ‘You’re Allen’s coach.’
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I’m a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I’d be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it’s become a habit.
I never dreamed I would coach at UCLA. It was not one of those things in my coaching career I thought would happen. It’s a tremendous blessing, and I’m going to make the most of it.
What’s it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It’s like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.
When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife’s consent.
There’s a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who’d make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event… I’d really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you’re trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.
I can’t figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It’s been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I’ve enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
When I first started singing – before ‘Treat Me Like Fire’ when I was working with a vocal coach – I realized that I wasn’t even breathing when I was singing.
I coach my daughter’s softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
