Sports & Teamwork: Coaching Quotes

"If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"I can say that hands down, from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game"

Tom Landry, Coach

"So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"In five years, I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"When you just work tactically in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"I don't want to lose myself in football, and that's what a coach has to do to be successful"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Right after the game, say as little as possible"

Tom Landry, Coach

"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"So, when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership, they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind, the game has already started"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"As a coach, you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"At a young age, winning is not the most important thing... The important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games, and the difficulty in the job is to combine both"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice"

Joe Sakic, Athlete

"Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no, thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in, everyone took them on board so well. He is special"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score"

Frank Leahy, Coach

"What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us"

Oliver Kahn, Athlete

"He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do"

Gene Mauch, Athlete

"My thing is trying to convince them they can win"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them!"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes' careers from start to finish, 100% all the way"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

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