Coaches Quotes

• All coaches have theories on where their teams are supposed to be, and we were as good as I could have hoped against Auburn. I want them to stay aggressive and keep competing.

  

  Eddie Reese
  • Teams
  • Aggressive
  • Theories

• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  

  Hayden Fry
  • Color
  • Wall
  • Games

• I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Eye

• Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

  

  George Karl
  • Mean
  • Humans
  • Basketball

• I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Player
  • Incredibles
  • Championship

• Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Coaching
  • Percent
  • Including

• Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Understanding
  • Player
  • Chess

• 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
  • Learning
  • Relationships
  • Coaches

• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Believe
  • Accident
  • Secure

• I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists - they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them.

  

  Mikel Arteta
  • Hearts
  • Message
  • Coaches

• Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Believe
  • Player
  • Winning

• The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

  

  Elena Mukhina
  • Children
  • Coaches
  • Stresses

• I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Character

• A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Team
  • Personality
  • Coaches

• It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

  

  Will Muschamp
  • Winning
  • Coaches
  • Championship

• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Training
  • Piece
  • Optimum

• I like it a lot. That just goes to show the rapport we have with the coaches and they trust us enough to do something on our own that we recognize so we can make a play.

  

  Charles Tillman
  • Trust
  • Own
  • To Do

• I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

  

  Rebecca Lobo
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Coaches

• It was different. I was sure to notice when Coach Alvarez used to come and sit in on my meeting or when he was in my drills, so I was trying to be a little bit conscientious of that, especially the first two days, trying to let coaches establish how they go about their business. I was just trying to stay at a distance, look around and watch for the first few days.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Business
  • Distance
  • Meeting

• The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • World
  • Persons
  • Strategy

• This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.

  

  Eric Hyman
  • Priority
  • Credit
  • Student

• Players win games, and coaches win players.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Player
  • Games
  • Coaches

• Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

  

  Tiffeny Milbrett
  • Information
  • Ability
  • Careers

• I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Golfers

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