Coaches Quotes - Page 8

• Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Player, Coaching

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• All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

  Steve Spurrier

  Past, Trying, Way

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• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Player, Ideas

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• I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

  Allen Iverson

  Motivational, Basketball, Guy

  Inside Hoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

  Perry Como

  Hands, Acting, Hollywood

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• When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

  Tom Osborne

  Missing You, Player, Games

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• I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

  Frank Robinson

  Player, People, Gone

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• Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

  Jay Mohr

  Baseball, Player, Dresses

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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Chess

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• And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

  Brandi Chastain

  Motivational, Athlete, Kids

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• Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Jobs, Successful

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• We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Sports, Needs, Analysis

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Responsibility, Thinking

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Player, Should

  Inside Hoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

  Harvey Penick

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Teaching, Thinking

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• It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

  Michael Gartner

  Demand, Economy, Good Coaches

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• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Baseball, College

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Coaching, Marketing, Economy

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• Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

  Sebastian Coe

  World, Talent, Enough

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• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Way

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• The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

  Emil Zatopek

  Team, Athlete, Doctors

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• We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

  Linford Christie

  Country, Stars, Athlete

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• So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Team, Two

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