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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."
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"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
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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."
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"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
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"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
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"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."
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"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good."
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"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."
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"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
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"No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody."
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"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
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"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."
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"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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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."
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"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."
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"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."
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"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win."
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