Coaches Quotes - Page 28

• I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

  Amy Poehler

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Girl, Softball, Team

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• My dream was to become a rec league coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it, I just never thought I'd make it to college, NBA, or be standing up here today. It is a surreal feeling. So many people doubted me and motivated me. I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.

  Kevin Durant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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• To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

  LeBron James

  Winning, Simple, Nba

  "Early Start", www.cnn.com. May 11, 2015.

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• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Country, College

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• Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

  George Colman the Elder

  Home, Giving, House

  The Clandestine Marriage act 1 (1766).

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• I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Doubt, Pressure

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• I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Moving, Play, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

  Steve Simmons

  Guy, Finals, Four

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• I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Player, Fans

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• I've always been my own hitting coach.

  David Ortiz

  Hitting, My Own

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• Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Careers, Giving, Too Much

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• I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

  Daley Thompson

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Teaching, Athlete, Healthy

  "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.

  Louis van Gaal

  Team, Philosophy, Player

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• I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

  Walter Alston

  Not Afraid

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Nba

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

  Tony La Russa

  Heart, Ends, Pure

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• I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

  Steve Alford

  Blessed, Opportunity, Player

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• Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

  Ion Tiriac

  Player, Dependable, Get Over

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• I feel I am a players' coach. The only thing that means is I care about my players more than anything.

  Rex Ryan

  Mean, Player, Care

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• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  Vijender Singh

  Sports, Teaching, Boxing

  "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". The Times of India Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Unlike most youngsters who have school as their second home where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

  Saina Nehwal

  Fun, Home, School

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• Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Responsibility, Player

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• A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

  Don Meyer

  Teaching, Player, Program

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