Coaches Quotes - Page 30

• I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Littles, Way

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.

  Patrick Willis

  Father, Son, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Winning, Super Bowl

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

  Chris Copeland

  Comfort, Levels, Teammate

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Sweet 16 Podium Interviews: Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith". Interview with Doug Brodess, bleacherreport.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

  Jim Cleamons

  Opportunity, Coaching, Want

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Sports, Team, Character

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• Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

  Gordie Gillespie

  Kids, Player, Concern

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• Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

  Gordie Gillespie

  Athlete, People, Care

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• Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Lying, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

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• Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Baseball, Father, School

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Apology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

  Arthur Caplan

  Money, Class, People

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• He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

  Andy Pettitte

  Father, Book, School

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• Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Men, Winning

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• I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.

  Albert Pujols

  Smart, Player, Hitting

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• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

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• A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

  B. C. Forbes

  Horse, Business, Men

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• A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Men, Thinking, Pace

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• A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

  Ara Parseghian

  Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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• Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

  Chris Gerdes

  Technology, Want Something, Car

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• Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

  Susan J. Ellis

  Men, Volunteer, Fireman

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• Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.

  Frank Nugent

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

  Bert Blyleven

  Hurt, Kids, Years

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• We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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