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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."

Craig Johnston, South African Athlete

Coach, Kids, Now, Reality

"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."

Tim Buckley, American Musician

Coach, Fact, First, Hurt

"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."

Bobby Knight, American Coach

Coach, Coaching, Interest, Pretty

"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."

Eric Dickerson, American Athlete

Coach,

"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, American Politician

Coach, Excitement, Help, Preparation

"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

Mark Messier, Canadian Athlete

Coach, Personality, Will

"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."

Isaiah Thomas, American Athlete

Coach, Coaching, Want

"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."

Sachin Tendulkar, Indian Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Comparisons

"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."

Brian McBride, American Athlete

Coach,

"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."

Mark Spitz, American Athlete

Coach,

Explore more quotes by Bob Uecker

"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."

Abuse, Living

"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"

Woman, Women, Word

"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."

Hope, Fact, Will

"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."

Man, Men, Clothes

"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."

Entertainment, Awards, Day

"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."

Coach,

"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."

People, Ability, Play

"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."

Sports, Winter

"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."

Talk, Winter