Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.
Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.
In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.
I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.
When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.
I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.