top of page
.png){kind=small}
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."
17
"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."
6
"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
4
"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."
3
"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
3
"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."
2
"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
2
"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
2
"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
2
"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
1
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
1
"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."
1
"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."
1
"I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good."
1
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
1
"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."
1
"No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody."
1
"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
1
"You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying."
1
"Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising."
1
"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win."
1
"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
1
"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
"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."
bottom of page