Top 1200 Coaches And Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I utilize my coaches. I value their opinions on a lot of things.

Fortunately, I had some very good coaches.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Gregg Popovich is one of the best coaches in the history of the NBA.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment.

Are you playing for your teammates and coaches? That's how it should be.

I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

Coaches respect each other, and it's a tough business.

It's cheesy but my parents have been my coaches my whole life.

I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

Ask any coach in any sport, and they'll tell you that cutting players is their least favorite thing to do. No coach enjoys having to tell players who have worked so hard and for so long on a dream that they are no longer on the team.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

When I was working with Reebok, Paul Fineman sent me to see David Stern to try to explain to him, basically, the tanning of America: That all rappers wanted to be basketball players and basketball players wanted to be rappers.

I'd like to be a great example for other coaches. That's all I want to be.

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

I think all coaches have their own way of doing things.

We're in the world of football, it's a spectacle and the coaches form part of that.

When you come to Manchester United, in every transfer window - whether the team is doing well or badly - there are always players linked with the club because this club is always linked with the best players.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

All my coaches will tell you that I am a great professional.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

The players who tend to make the difference are often great dribblers. Some are very fast; others have a repertoire of moves and feints. These players need to have great technique in order to be good dribblers. But I'm not a good dribbler.

I speak to lots of coaches, but those are private conversations.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Ancelotti is one of the best coaches and has proved this by winning trophies.

I'm really proud of my coaches and the people I have training with me.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.

Coaches help every facet of a person's life.

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.

I love coaches that just talk about football.

I've definitely seen a lot of good players since I've came to Australia and I've definitely seen a lot of players that could easily play in the Championship in England.

Every team needs goalscorers, attacking players, players who can sweep up the ball, but every team needs that someone who can be the link between defence and attack. The greatest teams always have that sort of player.

Real Madrid is bigger than egos. The club is huge and the culture of the club was so big that we were able to sign huge players. It was then up to the players to adapt to the culture and not the other way around.

The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

I asked for the toughest, best fights to my management, to my coaches.

Gregg Popovich is among the greatest coaches ever.

The coaches always tell me to stay aggressive.

Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

I like helping first-year head coaches.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in, and whether that is Liverpool or England, I need to do more, and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club who push you and want to take your place, and you have to be better than them.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I've shared doTERRA products with my coaches, chef, and especially teammates.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

I'm not saying that players should go out and say random things, especially if they don't know anything about it. But I think players do know more than people give them credit for. People do research, and people are entitled to their own opinions.