Coaches Quotes - Page 31

• My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going
  to be a good coach.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Believe, Why Not, Best Coaches

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• There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Mistake, Perfect, Sound

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• Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

  Novak Djokovic

  Anger, Long, Proud

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• I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.

  Ali Krieger

  Dad, Gymnastics, Boys

  "Under Ali Krieger's uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  Bear Bryant

  Hate, Men, Kind

  "Football's Supercoach" by B.J. Phillips, content.time.com. Septemebr 29, 1980.

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• You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.

  Dan Gable

  Years, People, Done

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• Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

  Jennifer Skiff

  Dog, Teaching, Athlete

  Jennifer Skiff (2013). “The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.

  Dottie Walters

  Green, Professionalism, Fine

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• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  Abby Wambach

  Hurt, Player, People

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• The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.

  Ken Dryden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Team

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• I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I went into the crowd and kissed my girlfriend. I was 18 and didn't have my coach with me, I was there on my own, and I just needed to celebrate with someone I knew. I always start out with good intentions. I'll say something nice, then I'll just put my foot in it and ruin the moment.

  Andy Murray

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.

  Eva Mendes

  People, Drug, Acting

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• However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.

  Robin Farina

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

  Eva Mendes

  Play, Acting, Layers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.

  Steve Spurrier

  Jobs, Careers, Coaching

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• You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

  Tom Brady

  School, College, Listening

  Interview with Matthew McConaughey, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  Mark Rippetoe

  Training, Ceilings, Bars

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• The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.

  Tony Dungy

  Games, Careers, Defense

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Confused, Player, Thinking

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

  Bill Walton

  Children, Congratulations, Championship

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Growing Up, Player

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• Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Teacher

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• Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, People, Mentor

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• With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

  Dave Hickey

  Art, Jobs, Up Early

  Source: www.believermag.com

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