Coach Quotes
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I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
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A successful coach is one who is still coaching.
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I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.
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Coach was going to make us do striders today, but I talked him out of it.
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Coach Williams told us from day one that we can do what no one expects us to do, that we can be the darlings of America.
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Looking back on everything that happened with me and coach, 99 percent of the time it was my fault. I see that now, definitely. ... Now that he's gone, you understand you lost a lot.
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I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
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Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.
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It's all on the up-and-up. It was a good business decision for him and for the university. There's nothing worse than to have a coach locked into a five- or six-year contract that doesn't want to be here.
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
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To date, yeah, we probably are. We've done a lot work on zones in the last week and a half, anticipating that everybody is going to play zone, but the team that we feared most was Marquette. I like zone a lot as a coach, but my team doesn't seem to like zones.
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I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.
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Coach wanted me to run the pick and roll and get to the basket.
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For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!
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Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
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We've made a lot of changes. Our roster is not set in stone. It's a very young team, our average age is 25. It's going to try the patience of its coach.
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A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
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A gymnast is a brush in an artist’s hand while the coach is the artist creating a painting with a brush. Then, the gymnast slowly becomes an artist in her own right. It’s a transformation. I enjoy both.
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My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.
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Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.
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That's just my personality, that's just who I am. I'm very vocal on defense. I'm not one to be silent and not talk. I'm always asking coach about plays or making suggestions. It's just something I'm use to doing from football.
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When Coach gets emotional, I get emotional, and I felt that with him. The emotion was all about Coach Douglas ... I know it's a heavy burden, but I'm more than happy to carry that.
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Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently
