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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."

"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."

"I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good."

"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."

"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."

"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."

"I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them."

"It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing."

"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
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"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."

"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit."

"What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains."

"I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers."

"Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend."

"A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition."

"I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams."
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