Top 1200 Assistant Coaches Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.

I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.

Coaches build teams, parents build players.

Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game... Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.

My coaches have always been on my side, motivating me to try harder and harder every day, which is not easy.

Who's been with me longest? Kevin Blackwell. I signed him as a goalkeeper at Scarborough in '86 and he's basically been with me my whole career. He's been my goalkeeper, reserve goalie, now my assistant manager.

Thank you to all of the managers, coaches, and staff I've worked with and thank you to all of the team-mates that I've shared a dressing room with over the years.

Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too often, they begin to view and treat their teams, and especially their assistants, as appliances. And a good assistant knows that the last thing their boss wants to hear from them is a personal complaint about anything.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

My coaches taught me a lot is about taking the first touch positive, and I think that's what I've tried to base my game off of. A big part of it is being aggressive.

If you don't do it the way coaches ask you to do something, and someone else does it the way it's supposed to be done, that's just natural life.

When I was 17 I did a B License and had no opportunities in the U.K. so I opted to go abroad and work in America for 10 years where the understanding of female coaches was very different to England.

There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump's inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.

I've been lucky enough to have good coaches my whole career who just teach you the right way, teach you the fundamentals.

Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.

People mouth all the time. I was involved in a rivalry with N.C. State where two coaches tackled each other in the middle of the field after the game. That one was kind of nasty, I thought.

A lot of players and pundits can be talking the Scottish league down and it's not until players and coaches actually experience it they start respecting it.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

I'm not saying the U.S. system is poor at all, because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of great coaches and good things I did there as well.

I've had coaches along the way that actively go out of their way to make sure that I don't succeed. They don't like me.

We see Tom Brady get into it with his coaches and he's the greatest of all time. That's just passion, man. That's passion and emotion.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

One of my biggest attributes, if you speak to my coaches from when I was a young lad, is that I've always believed in my own ability and been a confident young man.

I've been in this league a long time. The league's not perfect. But I'm definitely proud of a lot of my teammates, coaches, trainers, owners.

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

My observance as a practicing Muslim in the NBA is somewhat uncommon. Since joining the league in 2011, my dedication to my faith has aroused the curiosity of teammates, coaches, trainers and fans.

I think coaches sometimes think it's always their way.

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

I believe leaving school early was the right decision to make, but at first, I wasn't sure. But my coaches told me to follow my heart and there wouldn't be any regrets, and that's exactly what I did.

I have known a lot of coaches, but Tuchel gets to get into the players' heads quickly. You want to listen to him. And give 100% because he gives himself thoroughly.

Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

Some of my teammates and coaches don't understand what I'm doing by speaking out, but they support me, for which I am grateful. They have become part of my surrogate family here in the United States.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

I think the day you underestimate the importance of the job at Celtic Football Club, that's the day when you fail. I've seen a few coaches doing that.

Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.

I learn more from my coaches and I feel that I have continued to get better offensively. I'm like fine wine, the older, the better.

I've had more coaches in pregame meetings apologize for cursing. I'm like, I swear like a pirate. You don't have to worry about that.'

That's one of the things I like about our business: our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can.

It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them.

Coach education in Germany is actually very good, but I do not understand why many coaches do not have the guts to push through an idea when they have lost two or three times.

I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

I was never the most technical wrestler. But my coaches definitely instilled in me the belief that if you can push yourself and practice smarter than the other guy, you can beat him.

I am paid to play, and the coaches are paid to plan, and that is what they have to do.

Coaches win practices, players win games

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

You always wonder how a coach's demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach. They can kind of change, the personality, and you don't know how that will affect the team or how they see him.

I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

I have been lucky enough to work with such coaches who didn't try to change me but always told me to back myself.

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.