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Coach Quotes
"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."
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"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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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 have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
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"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here."
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"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
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"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
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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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"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."
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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 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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"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."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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"I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me."
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"It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing."
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"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."
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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 believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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"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."
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"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."
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"I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach."
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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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