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Coach Quotes
"We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it."
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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 was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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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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"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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"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him."
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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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"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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"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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"It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them."
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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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"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."
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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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"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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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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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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"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
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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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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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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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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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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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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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