Top 100 Quotes About Coaches
#1. With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100 Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Alexander Pope
#2. I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.
Tex Winter
#3. Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!")
Nicholas Dawidoff
#4. It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.
Steve Largent
#5. I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
Don Meyer
#6. As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.
Daniella Alonso
#7. I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.
Chuck Pagano
#8. Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.
John Kessel
#9. If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
Roger Bannister
#10. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.
Jeff Cunningham
#11. I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
Ricky Williams
#12. I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and wearing microphones may hinder development by straining the nature of relationships coaches and players have.
Steve Nash
#13. I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.
Reggie White
#14. Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them.
David James Duncan
#15. From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.
Ryan Miller
#16. Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays ... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.
Matt Hasselbeck
#17. It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.
Donna Shalala
#18. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
Aaron Rodgers
#19. Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.
Jimmy Johnson
#20. I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.
Robbie Fowler
#21. There's a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there's an idea, there's probably never been an original idea in football.
Chip Kelly
#22. If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
John Wooden
#23. First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
Dan Fouts
#24. Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.
Alan Lewis
#25. You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.
Bobby Orr
#26. I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that ... but I know that's just American society.
Dean Smith
#27. In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.
Gregory Maguire
#28. It's difficult to compare coaches.
Cobi Jones
#29. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
Oscar Robertson
#30. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
#31. Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.
Ken Hitchcock
#32. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."
Tim Foley
#33. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Bum Phillips
#34. There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.
Phil Niekro
#35. You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.
Robin Yount
#36. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#37. Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.
Tony La Russa
#38. I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches ... build a trust.
Chuck Pagano
#39. Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
Roland Joffe
#40. I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
Abe Lemons
#41. 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
#42. The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.
Cung Le
#44. Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
Michael Chang
#45. The one thing coaches cannot tolerate ... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
Zig Ziglar
#46. You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
Bobby Bowden
#47. Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies.
Fritz Crisler
#48. Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
Larry Bird
#49. I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.
Andrew Luck
#50. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.
Rita Rudner
#51. Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
Bill Parcells
#52. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.
Drew Houston
#53. Glue guys aren't superstars. They're not the No. 1 option. They just do things only coaches really appreciate. The stars get the headlines, but glue guys help you get in the winner's circle. I don't think you can win without having that kind of player.
Dick Vitale
#54. I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.
Rita Ora
#55. After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
Anson Dorrance
#56. Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
Darrell Royal
#57. I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
Steve Carell
#58. There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.
Tom Landry
#59. 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
#60. Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
Bill Walton
#61. Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
Bear Bryant
#62. The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.
Casey Barnes
#63. When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!
Gerard Butler
#64. I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
Barry Sanders
#65. I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where we need to address some issues he seems to have. He's had good marathon coaches - both Brad Hudson and me. He's figured out the fueling. He's got this incredible aerobic engine. But something's still wrong.
Alberto Salazar
#66. The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.
Ron Jaworski
#67. If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#68. Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.
Paul Brown
#69. You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'
Richard Sherman
#70. The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.
Tim Hudson
#71. As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
Bobby Knight
#72. Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
Jim Bouton
#73. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Red Auerbach
#74. College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.
Oscar Robertson
#75. Who needs psychiatrists? Who needs grief counsellors and life coaches and motivational speakers? Fuck all that! Just stare at the night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.
J.A. Redmerski
#76. I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.
John Madden
#78. There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
Jane Leavy
#79. The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.
Tony Dungy
#80. I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.
Nick Ferguson
#81. Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.
John Williams
#82. I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.
Mike Tice
#83. Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
David Mitchell
#84. Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.
Thomas G. Bandy
#85. As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.
Hines Ward
#86. The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
Isaiah Thomas
#87. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#88. Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.
John Paul Warren
#89. All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.
Shane Warne
#90. Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things.
Ricky Williams
#91. There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
Joe Namath
#92. There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
Ross Perot
#93. I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
Phil Jackson
#94. There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
Ken Loeffler
#95. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams
Tom Thibodeau
#96. Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?
Simon Kuper
#97. I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.
Dolph Schayes
#98. Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.
Didier Drogba
#99. The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
Oscar Robertson
#100. What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.
Roger Goodell
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