Top 32 Quotes About Coach K
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
Vince Lombardi
#5. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
Patrick Williams
#6. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.
Michael J. Marx
#7. How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry
#8. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.
Nicole A. Walker
#9. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
John Wooden
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Stephen Covey
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
Steve Young
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
Dick Devenzio
#27. 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
#28. Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. How come I never get invited on these violent trips?
Rick Riordan
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
Dean Smith
#32. Rules are no substitute for character.
Coach K
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