Coaching Quotes
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Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.
Tyronn Lue
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It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.
Kirby Smart
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When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.
Jon Gruden
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
Phil Jackson
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Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.
Bo Schembechler
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My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.
Karch Kiraly
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I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.
Morgan Wootten
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The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
Scotty Bowman
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All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.
Antonio Conte
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People didn't think Christian Ponder would get picked in the first or second round, but they don't understand how prepared he was for the pro game through the FSU coaching staff.
Chad Kelly
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In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
John Wooden
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The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
Red Auerbach
