Sports & Teamwork: Coaching Quotes

"If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"Most pitchers are too smart to manage"

Jim Palmer, Athlete

"I have always been a firm believer in participation, so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week, but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority"

Tony Brown, Journalist

"I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful"

Linford Christie, Athlete

"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment, and that works"

Linford Christie, Athlete

"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"Once the World Cup preparations begin, there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high"

Michael Gartner, Journalist

"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room, and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"You know, over 20 years, I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012"

Linford Christie, Athlete

"I have no desire to coach basketball"

Kevin Johnson, Athlete

"No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls"

John Elway, Athlete

"Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising"

Linford Christie, Athlete

"That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach"

Jamal Lewis, Athlete

"A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United"

David Gill, Scientist

"But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go, or to save your ball from going into worse places"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress"

Jerry Jones, Businessman

"Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air"

Dale Murphy, Athlete

"My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day"

Juan Marichal, Athlete

"English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens"

David Ginola, Athlete

"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality"

Craig Johnston, Athlete

"When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me"

Bode Miller, Athlete

"Kevin Keegan said, if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it"

Alvin Martin, Athlete

"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life"

Bob Cousy, Athlete

"No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen"

Bob Paisley, Athlete

"I don't want to be a Major League coach"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"We should, because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it"

Allen Iverson, Athlete

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