Coaches Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

  Al Davis

  Football, Passion, Greatness

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• And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Names, Organization

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Jobs, Player, Night

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  Carl Lewis

  Pay, Busy, Advise

  "Carl Lewis speaks out on Bolt, U.S. performance in Beijing, more". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. September 11, 2008.

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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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• 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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• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  Olga Korbut

  Gymnastics, Nineteen, Six

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• In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

  Bob Beamon

  New York, Team, School

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• I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

  Alberto Salazar

  Athlete, Personality, Stuff

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Athlete, Thinking

  "Coach Salazar talks future of U.S. long distance, training Ritzenhein". Interview with David Epstein, www.si.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where we need to address some issues he seems to have. He's had good marathon coaches - both Brad Hudson and me. He's figured out the fueling. He's got this incredible aerobic engine. But something's still wrong.

  Alberto Salazar

  Believe, Issues, Needs

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Player

  "Mike Singletary: short fuse and short leash" by David White, www.sfgate.com. October 10, 2010.

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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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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Determination, Hard Work

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