Coach Quotes · Page 43

The only thing I try to do as a coach is just stay on message and pound the points home.

— Mike D'Antoni

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

— Jim Cleamons

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little…

— Phil Jackson

My best coach was Rudy Tomjanovich because he asked the players what they wanted to do. He felt we had a feel…

— Robert Horry

You have to respect every coach and when there is a change you have to give everything you are asked for.

— Keylor Navas

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always…

— Leeman Bennett

My father - who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I've even known - next to him, Coach Lombardi was…

— Bart Starr

There's a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.

— Jeanie Buss

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not…

— Tim Buckley

I watched players getting really battered by the coach and their head just goes down, they dont want to play, theyre not…

— Emile Heskey

We've often gotten the rep for being a player's coach. 'Talk sweet to 'em all the time.' In reality, we're very disciplined,…

— Mack Brown

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best…

— Jennie Finch

I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he…

— Johnny Mathis

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down…

— Steve House

My coach in college always told me, 'You don't go out there to win lackadaisical, you don't go out there to win…

— Corey Anderson

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to…

— Peyton Manning

I'm very happy in Madrid and I'll defend my coach, the players, the president - everyone.

— Casemiro

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake…

— Jenna Morasca

You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

— Doc Rivers

I don't like to talk about players from other teams, just like I wouldn't like it if the opposition coach talked about…

— Ernesto Valverde

Coach K was great. We had a couple of individual conversations and he definitely taught me a lot of things.

— DeAndre Jordan

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I…

— Jayson Tatum

I don't want to be fired after two seasons and risk never getting another opportunity to coach.

— Chauncey Billups

Jose Mourinho is a great coach. I would really like to work with him, and I once came close. He knows what…

— Dani Alves

I want coach to be tough on me. That's the only way, I feel, if you're pushed, it will make you play…

— RJ Barrett

Throw flames, Liu Kang, the coach ain't help out, so I call my own shots. I'm David Blaine, I'm breakin' out of…

— J Cole

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

— Kelvin Sampson

I'm not coach D'Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot…

— David Fizdale

The coach's role is in the background; it's the players who come first. I am ready to take this role.

— Anil Kumble

My goal one day is to be Brazil coach, but to get there I need to have a club career. I started…

— Roberto Carlos

I knew I could kind of carry a tune, but I didn't sing. So I worked with an incredible vocal coach and…

— Monica Barbaro

Now to be the NBA player that gets to coach the little kids and talk to them and enjoy time with them,…

— Danilo Gallinari

Madrid is a difficult place to coach. There's a lot of pressure and Ancelotti is very good when he's under pressure.

— Alessandro Nesta

Yeah, I get upset when there's 12 men on the field. That doesn't mean I'm looking for another defensive coach.

— Sean Payton

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

— Lou Holtz

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

— Iman Shumpert

Ancelotti is the best coach I ever had. He is very fond of me and that sentiment is mutual.

— Vinicius Junior

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the…

— Claudio Ranieri

Klopp is a great expert in football and I always said that I'd have liked to work with him when I was…

— Ciro Immobile

I can play on the right, from the left, behind the main striker, or upfront - it depends on where the coach…

— Victor Moses