Coaching Quotes
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The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
Rick Pitino
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Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.
Dabo Swinney
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At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.
Michael Strahan
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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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I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.
Denise Morrison
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I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.
Tyronn Lue
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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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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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You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.
Lou Holtz
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They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
Red Auerbach
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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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He gave me those notes to reflect on the move, just like Coach Holtz had given him the notes. It's great to hear different philosophies on coaching.
Bret Bielema
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By the end of the year, I'll have pure white hair from coaching these guys. It will drive you absolutely crazy. Especially with the teams I've had that were really mature.
Eddie Sutton
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I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.
Claudio Ranieri
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In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
John Madden
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I really enjoyed coaching.
Joe Paterno
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I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.
Gabriel Batistuta
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But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that
Richard Krajicek
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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
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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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The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
Scotty Bowman
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
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I've been around the coaching circuit far too much.
Anne Donovan