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Coach Quotes

"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, Czechoslovakian Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Doctors, Scientists, Today

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"But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that."

Richard Krajicek, Dutch Athlete

Coach, Coaching, Job, Now, Right

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"I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia."

Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakian Athlete

Coach, First, Old, Years

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"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."

Sasha Cohen, American Athlete

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"No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody."

Oksana Baiul, American Athlete

Coach, Coaching, Responsibility

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"At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things."

Paul Gascoigne, English Athlete

Coach, Coaching, End

"If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach."

Bear Bryant, American Coach

Coach, Coaching, Kids, School

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

Bob Uecker, American Athlete

"I feel like there should be more black head coaches."

Lynn Swann, American Athlete

"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, American Coach

Coach, Day, Meeting, Pretty

"I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame."

Dan Devine, American Coach

"Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk."

Robin Roberts, American Athlete

Coach, Hell, Years

"I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training."

Kristanna Loken, American Actress

Coach, Training, Weapons, Weight

"So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching."

Steve Spurrier, American Coach

Coach, Coaching, Play, Years

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

Knute Rockne, American Coach

Coach, Responsibility, Sense

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

Oscar Robertson, American Athlete

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

Bernie Ebbers, Canadian Businessman

Coach, Coaching, Marketing, Pretty

"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."

Paul Bryant, American Coach

"I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like."

Bear Bryant, American Coach

"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."

Robin Yount, American Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Help, Managers, Years

"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

"And, coaching has never been an option for me."

Franco Harris, American Athlete

Coach, Coaching

"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."

Scott Brooks, American Coach

"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."

Lou Holtz, American Coach

"But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see."

Steve Spurrier, American Coach

Coach, Coaches, Fire, Job, Passion

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

Allen Iverson, American Athlete

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

Bear Bryant, American Coach

"I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches."

Sachin Tendulkar, Indian Athlete

"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."

Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor

Coach, Saying, Voice

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

Sachin Tendulkar, Indian Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Comparisons

"If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving."

Lynn Davies, British Athlete

"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here."

Steve Spurrier, American Coach

"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."

Darrell Royal, American Coach

Coach, Coaching

"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."

Vince Lombardi, American Coach

"I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team."

Larry Brown, American Basketball Coach

"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, American Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Now, Right

"I don't want to be a Major League coach."

Barry Bonds, American Athlete

"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."

Jurgen Klinsmann, German Athlete

Coach, Decisions

"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

"I have a lot of respect for tough coaches."

Reggie White, American Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Respect

"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."

Steve Largent, American Athlete

Coach, Fun, Nothing

"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."

Pat Williams, American Athlete

Coach, Coaching

"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."

Ice Cube, American Musician

Coach, Coaches, Football, Nothing, Youth

"To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach."

Bobby Bowden, American Coach

"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, American Journalist

Coach, Coaches, Economy

"The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan."

Whitey Ford, American Athlete

Coach, Coaches, Spring

"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."

Darrell Royal, American Coach

Coach, University

"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Coach, Influence

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

Scotty Bowman, Canadian Coach

Coach, Coaching

"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."

Robin Yount, American Athlete

Coach, Play, School

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