Sports & Teamwork: Coaching Quotes

"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"We need to be aware of all aspects: to check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general, and then be able to compete"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"After taking temporary charge last season, he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap to within a kick of getting into Europe"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner"

Kevin Garnett, Athlete

"I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"I started out wanting to coach football"

Lee Majors, Actor

"So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way"

Kevin Garnett, Athlete

"We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"Every bowling center should have a house pro"

Don Johnson, Actor

"We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right?"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either"

Bear Bryant, Coach

"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land"

Roland Joffe, Director

"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers, an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved"

Chuck Grassley, Politician

"But I think anybody who believes I could force Coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and, personally, if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"I believe in the players and what I've put together, and we'll make it work"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win"

Bum Phillips, Coach

"It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"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, Athlete

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot"

Dean Smith, Athlete

"Obviously, you have to have talent in order to play, so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent, because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person"

Tim Buckley, Musician

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