Top 100 Coach Quotes
#1. I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.
George Foreman
#2. Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
Omar Dorsey
#3. My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.
Billy Baldwin
#4. I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
Bobby Bowden
#5. There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
Brian O'Driscoll
#6. They grabbed me and up I went. My shriek probably could've been heard in England. It certainly brought the basketball coach and the rest of the boys running in the belief that someone was being brutally murdered.
I don't think Mrs. Green will be picking me for the squad.
Joss Stirling
#7. We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.
Les Miles
#8. He had only ever seen one episode of it - the one where Coach's daughter comes to the bar - although he had seen that several times. Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart; he thought it must be some kind of cosmic
Neil Gaiman
#9. A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
Andy Stanley
#10. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
Amanda Borden
#11. It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.
David Blatt
#12. Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
#13. I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
Calvin Harris
#14. As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, "If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low." If
Ben Horowitz
#15. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.
Nick Saban
#16. I think my father is probably the best coach ever because if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
Serena Williams
#17. What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
George Halas
#18. I'm really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who've been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.
Bobby Hoying
#19. The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
John Wooden
#20. In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.
Terry Francona
#21. I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Adolph Rupp
#23. What the hell was that?" "Coach?" "Don't you dare 'Coach?' me, you malfunctioning retard." "No, but really," Nicky said, looking wide-eyed at Neil. "What happened?" "Neil hit Riko," Matt said. "It was beautiful.
Nora Sakavic
#24. I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.
Andy Roddick
#25. Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
Tim Buckley
#27. Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.
Jenna Morasca
#28. The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.
Sibel Kekilli
#29. I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
Wayne Gretzky
#30. My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
Matthew Stafford
#32. Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
Jennifer Lopez
#33. I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
Michael Mann
#34. My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
Sasha Cohen
#35. I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.
Phil Jackson
#36. The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
Terry Bradshaw
#37. I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
Tracey Ullman
#38. The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.
Franz Stampfl
#39. For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.
Kim Yuna
#40. We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.
Rupert Grint
#41. People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
Anatoli Boukreev
#42. The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.
Darrell Royal
#43. When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning
Megan Abbott
#44. I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.
Dominique Moceanu
#45. Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
Jose Mourinho
#46. I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.
Mesut Ozil
#47. Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
John Calipari
#48. I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.
Donovin Darius
#49. My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
Joshua Waitzkin
#50. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
Don Kardong
#51. I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.
Mitch Albom
#52. I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.
Al Davis
#53. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins
#54. I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
Steve Alford
#55. A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
Adam Smith
#56. As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
Doc Rivers
#57. We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
Bode Miller
#58. In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
#59. '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.
Mike Singletary
#60. Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a high level in this league, but that's not what they respect you for as a coach.
Brendan Daly
#61. I don't have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.
Richard Harmon
#62. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
Charlie Weis
#63. A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. - Jack Canfield and Peter Chee
Jack Canfield
#64. Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
Bill Gates
#65. My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
Harry Mathews
#66. I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.
Joe Ehrmann
#67. You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.
Brian McDermott
#68. I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.
Andy Murray
#69. Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.
Tony DiCicco
#70. National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.
Steve Simmons
#71. I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.
Gordon Ramsay
#72. Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.
Joan Bauer
#73. Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Dick Motta
#74. I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
Dennis Bergkamp
#75. Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
Lou Holtz
#76. A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.
Leeman Bennett
#77. Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
Mark McGwire
#78. I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
Kristanna Loken
#79. I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#80. The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove
#81. To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.
Jerry West
#82. Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.
Cory Booker
#83. Edwards recalled that he once planned to coach until he was 60 as he signed an extension to his contract. I was about 62 before I ever remembered that's what I had set up ... Now I'm already making plans for next year and recruiting. That's the reason for this. I just feel good right now.
LaVell Edwards
#84. One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.
John Wooden
#85. You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.
Tony La Russa
#86. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.
Mike McConathy
#87. I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach
Miranda Kenneally
#88. My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
Magnus Carlsen
#89. When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.
Eunhyuk
#90. Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
#91. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.
Ryan Lilly
#93. When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.
Jeff Kinney
#94. I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
Kyrie Irving
#95. I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
Johan Cruijff
#96. As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.
Steve Prefontaine
#97. 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.
Bob McNair
#98. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#99. I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.
Steve Spurrier
#100. 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.'
Tony Dungy
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