Coaching Quotes
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It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.
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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.
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Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really enjoyed coaching.
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I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.
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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.
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The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
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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
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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.
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
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Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go... To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
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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.
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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.
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I find that in my own life and with the people I've been coaching, when people make the decision to get rich, they're available to do things that are outside of their comfort zones and stretch themselves.
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The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
