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Coach Quotes
"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
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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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"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 I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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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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"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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"I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches."
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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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"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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"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 are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
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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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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
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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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"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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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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"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
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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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"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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"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."
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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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"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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"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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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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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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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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