Coaching Quotes
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Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
Bobby Bowden
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Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
Pat Summitt
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We are all happy for Darrell and his family. He feels the NFL is the direction he wants to go and we are supportive of him reaching his goals. We are all appreciative of the work he did here in coaching our receivers. He developed a great number of excellent players, and as also a strong recruiter.
Bob Stoops
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
Patrick Ewing
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Pat Williams
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
Pat Burns
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What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.
Christopher Voss
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
Randy Moss
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Head coaching options are limited.
Dan Gilbert
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It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
Dick Vitale
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Oksana Baiul
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With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Gary Neville
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I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.
Marshall Goldsmith
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I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.
Jerry Jones
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
Hannah Kearney
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
Patrick Ewing
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You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
Joe Sakic
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It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
Bruce Sutter
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It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.
Matt Busby
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
Zach LaVine
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I've been coaching how many years? A long time.
Larry Brown
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When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the commitment of the job and travel that goes with it, too.
John Elway
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During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.
Jack Ramsay