Coaches Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Player, Matter, Able

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• 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

  Character, Issues, Order

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• I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Winning, Want, Educate

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Norway, Being The Best

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• 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

  Intelligent, Men, People

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• There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  Aaron Carter

  Book, Class, Acting

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• The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

  Allan Sherman

  Want, Ulysses, Sissy

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• Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

  Ken Hitchcock

  Believe, Hockey, Ducks

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

  Josh Gad

  School, College, Speech

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• I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

  Katherine Helmond

  Fun, Blessed, Joy

  "DIVA TALK: Chats with Helmond and Rose, Oz's Block Gets Wicked and Q Folk Go Empty-Handed". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 6, 2004.

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• I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell my coaches that we shouldn't be losing kids to Clemson. Charlie Strong responded ‘coach have you ever actually been to Clemson?’ I hadn’t but I’ll tell you what, I’ve been here now and I get it. This is an exceptional, special place.

  Urban Meyer

  Strong, Kids, Florida

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• Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.

  Gus Malzahn

  Football, School, College

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• Football coaches don't have real problems.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Real, Problem

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• I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Want, Feels

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, People, Risk

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

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• I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

  Luis Tiant

  College, Long, Pitching

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• You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Children, Nba

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• Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

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• Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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