Top 100 Coach Pat Dye Quotes
#1. One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.
Patrick Willis
#2. Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
Vijender Singh
#3. I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.
Ron Jaworski
#4. The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.
Charles Perrault
#5. I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
Dante Hall
#6. Coach Noll had always told me, Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.
Tony Dungy
#7. While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach's enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. "What was that for?" the coach demanded.
Rick Riordan
#8. I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
Anatoli Boukreev
#9. I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.
Adolph Rupp
#10. I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
Dan O'Brien
#11. I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.
JWoww
#12. I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
Rex Ryan
#13. It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.
Will Muschamp
#14. In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.
Mark Schultz
#15. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Kathryn Stockett
#16. Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach.
Jeffrey Fry
#17. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen
#18. I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels.
Vernon Sproxton
#19. Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and body. Which is why most ex-oarsmen will tell you they learned more fundamentally important lessons in the racing shell than in the classroom.
Daniel James Brown
#20. But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
Lee Majors
#21. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.
Michael McGovern
#22. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
Sherman Alexie
#23. Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.
Bill Belichick
#24. I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.
Meryl Davis
#25. You stupid, selfish, philandering coach-class jackass.
Kate Klise
#26. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
Don Shula
#27. I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.
Chic Murray
#28. In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
Frances E. Willard
#29. Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.
John Wooden
#30. Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
Rick Pitino
#31. If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.
Jeb Bush
#32. Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
Abby Wambach
#33. I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.
Gerry Lindgren
#34. As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.
Joanna Lumley
#35. So are the stories true?" asked Hunter. "Depends," Becca hedged. "What have you heard?"
"That you knocked two seniors on their asses on the soccer field, then flipped off the coach."
"Absolutely true," said Becca, deadpan.
Brigid Kemmerer
#36. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
#37. But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
Karl Malone
#38. I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick,
Lamar Hunt
#39. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
Tom Lehman
#40. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.
Nathaniel Branden
#41. I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach ...
Mark Boyle
#42. The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.
Tom Landry
#43. There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
Tom Seaver
#44. In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.
Tim Howard
#45. I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.
Tony Dungy
#46. Don't be afraid to say "No". It's empowering. Remember, a "Yes" is a commitment. Give them wisely.
Sharon Law Tucker
#47. He was about as erotic as an old football coach.
Donna Tartt
#48. I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
Anna Kendrick
#49. I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
Danny Strong
#50. If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
Hansie Cronje
#51. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Stephen Covey
#52. Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
Scott Speedman
#53. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?
Tyson Chandler
#54. Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.
Jalen Rose
#55. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
#56. My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
Steve Young
#57. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#58. Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
Pee Wee Reese
#59. As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.
Martha Beck
#60. And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.
LaVell Edwards
#61. If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
Bear Bryant
#62. The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.
George Preston Marshall
#63. Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass,
Pat Dye
#64. A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
Dick Devenzio
#65. I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Scott Brooks
#66. You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.
Roger Milla
#67. Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: The cow says moo!
Rick Riordan
#68. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
John Wooden
#69. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.
Nicole A. Walker
#70. How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry
#71. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.
Michael J. Marx
#72. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
Patrick Williams
#73. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
Vince Lombardi
#74. In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#75. Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Simeon Strunsky
#76. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#77. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
Doc Rivers
#78. Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
Ken Harrelson
#79. As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#80. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.
Andy Stanley
#81. When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Victoria Pratt
#82. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.
Sharon Law Tucker
#83. When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
Sarah Silverman
#84. The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Jimmy Johnson
#85. One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
#86. The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."
Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
Neil Hayes
#87. Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?"
"Probably," Frank said.
"She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus."
"No doubt," Percy agreed.
"Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go.
Rick Riordan
#88. 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.
Thomas Perez
#89. 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.'
Tony Dungy
#90. Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
Pat Williams
#92. I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Aaron Douglas
#93. 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.
Blake Shelton
#94. It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach.
Tony Dungy
#95. I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
Bum Phillips
#96. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
Dean Smith
#97. There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.
Liang Chow
#98. Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!
Fanny Burney
#99. Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. How come I never get invited on these violent trips?
Rick Riordan
#100. I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they're all the same as that coach.
Kanye West
