Sports & Teamwork: Coaching Quotes

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"Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros"

Bobby Orr, Athlete

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had"

David Beckham, Athlete

David Beckham

"He who gets the best players usually wins"

Bobby Bowden, Coach

"Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up"

Warren Spahn, Athlete

"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible"

Karolina Kurkova, Model

"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint. I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament"

Tim Buckley, Musician

Tim Buckley

"I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist, but football is only two things - blocking and tackling"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

Vince Lombardi

"If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden'"

John Madden, Coach

John Madden

"If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E"

John Madden, Coach

John Madden

"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear"

John Madden, Coach

John Madden

"When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to"

John Madden, Coach

John Madden

"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired"

Lou Holtz, Coach

Lou Holtz

"A lifetime contract for a coach means, if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you"

Lou Holtz, Coach

Lou Holtz

"You got to get twenty-seven outs to win"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Sure, I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70, sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season, but we're going to try and win a pennant"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Most games are lost, not won"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo

"I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"If you want to make a good athlete, let them have fun"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

Nadia Comaneci

"I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players"

Abe Lemons, Coach

Abe Lemons

"I manage a team for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me"

Herb Brooks, Coach

"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway"

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

"One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach"

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

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