Coaching Quotes · Page 16

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

— Phil Jackson

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

— Don Meyer

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

— Gerardo Martino

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.

— Gabriel Batistuta

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

— Jeff Van Gundy

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the…

— Matt Cassel

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is…

— Steve Spurrier

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air…

— Bill Belichick

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away…

— Robert Gottlieb

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates.…

— Jalen Brunson

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and…

— Luiz Felipe Scolari

I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on…

— Derek Hough

You learn a lot as a coach when you sit back and tell someone what to do, and then you realize, 'Hey,…

— Frankie Edgar

A big part of my job is coaching and developing. I've hired the right team. But everyone has areas where we need…

— Shellye Archambeau

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.…

— Bear Bryant

A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is…

— Marshall Cook

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team.…

— Tom Landry

I began my career in communications and had the privilege of working with senior leaders in a variety of different business sectors.…

— John Baldoni

Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes…

— Shane Battier

In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that…

— Marshall Goldsmith

One of my biggest regrets in coaching was my eighth or ninth game of my career. I was wound up about a…

— Brad Stevens

Thanks to Conte, I got the urge of coaching, and I thank him for that.

— Andrea Pirlo

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

— Jim Calhoun

European basketball is no entertainment, it's straight IQ basketball. Straight coaching.

— Dennis Schroder

The reason I'm in good form is not just down to myself: it's down to the manager and coaching staff improving my…

— James Maddison

Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

— Robert Zuppke

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to…

— Daniel Sturridge

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

— John Wooden

There's no doubt I need coaching, I need help. I think everybody in the game does.

— Blake Bortles

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

— Nadia Comaneci

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

— Woody Hayes

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

— Mike Jarvis

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

— Mike Krzyzewski

He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay…

— Joey Barton

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

— Nikki Giovanni

Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.

— John Calipari

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

— Jerry Tarkanian