Quotes About Good Coaches

#1. 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

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

Bum Phillips

#3. We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Joe Dumars

#4. You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

Cain Velasquez

#5. Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

John Wooden

#6. I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

Geno Auriemma

#7. 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

#8. It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

Guy Forget

#9. The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Don Coryell

#10. 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

#11. Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

Jack Welch

#12. It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

Michael Gartner

#13. 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

#14. A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Jonathan Swift

#15. I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Haile Gebrselassie

#16. If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

Tony DiCicco

#17. It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

Barry Sanders

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

Dick Butkus

#21. A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.

Michael Josephson

#22. 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

#23. Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

Earl Weaver

#24. I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

Maxx Williams

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

Mark Rippetoe

#26. 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

#27. I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.

Andrew Luck

#28. 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

#29. Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

Marc Crawford

#30. 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

#31. I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

Bode Miller

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

Charles Haley

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. I get on well with people and I have really good relationships with the other coaches around me. I don't know everything about the games and I'm still learning all the time, so it's important to have an open mind.

Warren Gatland

#38. If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

Colin Kazim-Richards

#39. I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

Roger Federer

#40. It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Matt Stone

#41. The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take the bus, as I sometimes must, from Oxford to Cambridge, I arrive feeling almost suicidal.

George Monbiot

#42. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#43. If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

DeLoss Dodds

#44. People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

Eric Davis

#45. I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

Lou Holtz

#46. Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

#47. I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Chuck Daly

#48. I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

Andy Serkis