Coaches Quotes - Page 36

• If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Team, Exercise, Thinking

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.

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• Being a coach, I got to go home every day, [then] go out at night and have fun. I could pretty much live my normal life.

  Josh Koscheck

  Fun, Home, Night

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

  Tony DiCicco

  Player, Parent, Blame

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• I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.

  Tony DiCicco

  People, Assistants, Threatening

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• You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

  Tony DiCicco

  Loyal, Assistants, Assistant Coaches

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• If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

  Tony DiCicco

  Smart, People, Ifs

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• The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both.

  Julio Olalla

  Eye, Self, Soul

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• Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

  Eric Cantona

  France, Worst

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• Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.

  Scotty Bowman

  Jobs, Team, Believe

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• I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Dames, Records

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• Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.

  Alex Ferguson

  Simple, Player, Thinking

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• I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

  Samir Nasri

  Faces, Certain, Said

  "'I'd stab myself with a sausage!' - French football quotes of 2011" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2011.

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• The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.

  Johny Hendricks

  Thinking, Games, Vegas

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.

  Cung Le

  Worry, Training

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.

  Elana Meyers

  Softball, Player, College

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. Coach Gregg Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach Don Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself.

  Avery Johnson

  College, Men, Thinking

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.

  Avery Johnson

  Strong, Character, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are better than they were in the past. I don't think coaching today's players is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.

  Avery Johnson

  Thinking, Past, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My standards are so high because of who I serve but it doesn't put any water on my fire for winning. I'm still an intense person. You can be intense and saved. You can compete and still be saved. You can challenge a guy and still be saved. There was nothing soft about me as a player and there isn't anything soft about me as a coach. You want to be a man of integrity and you want the players to know that you care about them. Whether or not they still like you or not is a whole other deal.

  Avery Johnson

  Integrity, Player, Men

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Jobs, Son

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.

  Rafael Cavalcante

  Fighting, Mentor, Strategy

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• Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.

  Matt Cullen

  Christian, Team, Games

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

  Gabe Polsky

  Father, School, Hockey

  Source: collider.com

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• There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

  Gabe Polsky

  School, Order, Unions

  Source: collider.com

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• I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.

  Gabe Polsky

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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