Quotes About Coaching

I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

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.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

Coaching in the NFL is very much a fraternity. It's about who you know and if you work with them well. Head coach Bruce Arians would give me the highest recommendation, and I've already had guys who said they would love to bring me with them to another team.

I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.

Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.