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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."


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


"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."


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


"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."


"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."


"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."



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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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