Coaches Quotes - Page 31

• A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.

  John McNally

  Strong, Player, Guy

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Football, Texas, Looks

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• There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

  Ken Loeffler

  Sports, Education, Two

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• Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

  Larry Robinson

  Sports, Psychology, Quality

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• Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

  Danny White

  Sports, Creating, Discipline

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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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• What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Player, Justice

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• Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Women, Two

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Call time out when you need help and ask the Coach for help. Don't wait. Do it when you need it.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Time, Waiting, Needs

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• When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

  Boris Gelfand

  Sorry, Sparring Partner, Play

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• I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Fun, Stress, Chess

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• Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Depth, Chess, Well Known

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• Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

  Edmar Mednis

  Player, Understanding, Chess

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• I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Play, Interesting, Delight

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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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• 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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• 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 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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