Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Coaches - Page 17

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

I would always want to be involved with football in some manner. I love the game. I love coaching, good and bad.

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

I think being honest with one another creates an environment that's comfortable. You want to know where you stand, whether you're doing a good job. The players know what's going on before you do. They're trying to see if you're going to do something about it. And when it's not like that, everybody is pissed off, because they know that people can get away with stuff and that nobody is keeping them in line. That's not a team to me.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

One of my favourite players is, of course, Marcus Rashford.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

I had to prove everything because I was coming from Milan, and nobody knew me. I was a young talent who hadn't done anything, so I had it all to prove and all to do.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

It's better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you - and you can't concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.

Arsene Wenger was always the kind of manager whose belief in his team's qualities was steady as a rock and who approached matters with never-ending patience.

Everyone's job is important, but no one is indispensable.

Make or miss, you still have to shoot the same shot with confidence.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.

A lot of times continuity is your best hope for taking that next step. Can you have a balance of continuity and some additions and bolster it and walk that fine line of adding and embracing continuity?

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

When you play against a Spanish team, especially Madrid, it is quite an open game.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

It would be tremendous... I'd love to be part of winning a championship in Chicago.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.

No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team?

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

There is winning and there is misery.

We are givers, not takers.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

If you talk to people in the military, they'll tell you it takes 3-to-5 years to completely change a culture. It's about making sure, first of all, that everybody understands what the intent and what the vision is. Then you have to map out how you're gonna get there. And as you start to do that, you've got to find out who's in and who's not in.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

I need to learn to smile more.

If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.

What I strive for is that everywhere I go, I leave a positive impact.

There are few things more unfair than getting compared with Jurgen Klopp.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

It's something I think probably every football team and sports team in America deals with is having people get out of their comfort zone and being courageous enough to fix other people and not just focus on themselves.

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

During the first season of European football at Hoffenheim after we lost the Champions League knockout game to Liverpool, I changed a lot of players between Bundesliga matches and the Europa League for fresh legs. I learnt that we needed more stability. You need to keep five or six of the same places to give you structure, to be your spine.

For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I know we had a lot of wars on the court. The Pistons - those were the roughest games I ever played in.

Players play, tough players win.

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt - and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

Just do the best to do things the right way.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.