Athletics Quote by John Wooden

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

— Bobby Knight

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

— Nick Saban

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're…

— Matthew McConaughey

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody…

— Joe Paterno

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

— Andre Ward

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young…

— Joe Paterno

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

— Leeman Bennett

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

— John Madden

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

— Pete Newell

A coach is like a teacher. Our values come from our family, our parents, the people around you. All of us have principles.

— Javi Gracia

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

— John Wooden

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more…

— LaVell Edwards