Quotes About Best Coaches

#1. The best coaches I've been around, even older guys, are continually learning new ways to do things and new ways to teach.

Brendan Daly

#2. The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

Grant Teaff

#3. Best coaches never tell their athletes that they are wrong.They rather focus on creating awareness.

Abhishek Ratna

#4. Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

Mark Rippetoe

#5. I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.

Vince Kehres

#6. Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.

Lorii Myers

#7. I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Boris Spassky

#8. I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'

Blake Jenner

#9. We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Ray Lewis

#10. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

#11. During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

Jim Evans

#12. By the time they finish high school - after years of learning how to please their teachers and coaches, not to mention schmoozing with their parents' friends - elite students have become accomplished adult-wranglers.

William Deresiewicz

#13. The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches
and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair ... toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Phil Vischer

#14. A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport - limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever - a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.

A.D. Aliwat

#15. When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

Troy Brown

#16. What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

Ed Speleers

#17. Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

Troy Vincent

#18. There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Bobby Bowden

#19. I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

Jeff Van Gundy

#20. Coaches do get very nervous.

Urban Meyer

#21. You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Paul Pierce

#22. But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.

Michael Horton

#23. I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bobby Knight

#24. The ball is round, make sure you pass it around

John Wright

#25. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

George Vecsey

#26. Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

Mike Krzyzewski

#27. You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

Tom Brady

#28. I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.

Mesut Ozil

#29. We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#30. I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

Geena Davis

#31. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jim Brown

#32. Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had.

Shaquille O'Neal

#33. Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

Mario Balotelli

#34. For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Warren Gatland

#35. I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

Barry Sanders

#36. Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Lou Holtz

#37. Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students.

Lester Joseph Foltos

#38. That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

Don Cooper

#39. I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

Liam Hemsworth

#40. My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going
to be a good coach.

Wayne Gretzky

#41. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

Mike Krzyzewski

#42. I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

Don Haskins

#43. Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Mike Singletary

#44. Some coaches think they know everything, but they really don't. They tell you what they think is best, but it's really what's best for them.

Brandon Jacobs

#45. Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

Ivan Lendl

#46. A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

Andre Agassi

#47. I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Bum Phillips

#48. When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

#49. I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.

Rafael Cavalcante

#50. All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

Jim Brosnan

#51. I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

George Karl

#52. Football coaches meet midfield after a game, but they don't always hug

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#53. Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

John Wooden

#54. I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.

Brendan Rodgers

#55. I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.

Tony DiCicco

#56. In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#57. We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Chuck Grassley

#58. I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

Sergei Bubka

#59. 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

#60. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change

Renae A. Sauter

#61. I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Hank Stram

#62. The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

Chick Hearn

#63. I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Charles Haley

#64. Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

Aidy Boothroyd

#65. My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.

Vince Carter

#66. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

#67. You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

Tony DiCicco

#68. Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.

Brad Alan Lewis

#69. Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

Mary Stewart

#70. I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

Cassie Ventura

#71. In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Jon Krakauer

#72. I've had hard coaches all my life.

Chris Webber

#73. I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach ...

Mark Boyle

#74. All really successful coaches have a system.

Jim Valvano

#75. My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

Dan Gable

#76. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#77. Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

Jerry West

#78. Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

Prince Fielder

#79. I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.

Gabe Polsky

#80. Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

Susan J. Ellis

#81. I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Bobby Bowden

#82. For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Hamish Bowles

#83. The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

Peter Jacobsen

#84. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm

#85. One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

#86. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman