Top 1200 Coaches And Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Versatility, quality, good passing... I think all that catches coaches' eyes.

Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

When I first heard Madrid were interested, nothing else mattered. I just wanted to come here. This is the best club in the world, with the best coach and great players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, Gonzalo Higuain, Angel Di Maria... so many great players.

When I see players like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Robinson Cano, and Miguel Cabrera, I see they have a good season, but they also jump up the next year and do it over and over again. I want to be one of those players that do it every year.

There are many coaches who talk about referees every day.

Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.

I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already have good players on those teams.

I know for a fact that I have to keep winning and train hard and listen to my coaches.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

It's a stereotype that black players are just really fast, but at the end of day I want to be skilled, I want to be technical, I want to have vision and that's what I've always tried to promote in my game: not relying on one thing but just being able to outwork players in so many different ways.

That's the great thing for coaches... we'll find more things where we can get better.

Coaches have tried to change me but it's my personality, my character and how I play.

The best thing I can say is that I put it all on the line for my teammates, my family, and my coaches.

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets behind them straight away. They don't see half-hearted performances, they don't see people that are not running around. They see players competing, putting in the effort and enthusiasm.

My coaches respect me - the way I come to work, practice and play.

I want to thank my parents and my coaches, who brought me out of Guwahati.

You have to do more than the coaches ask you, or you'll never be a great player in this league.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Chelsea are one of the great teams in Europe and Mourinho is one of the best coaches in the world.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

Klopp knows how to motivate players. He speaks to them individually, gets their confidence up, makes them believe and grow in quality. He makes his players feel happy. And they then take that happiness onto the field. He builds that into them.

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

My relationships with the Duke coaches were the best, and they made me a priority.

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

I've always been a guy that's worked hard, and I think the coaches see that.

Some players have no idea how to handle life without structure. That's why some players get into trouble during the offseason. This is literally the first time in our lives we've ever had free time without somebody telling us where to be and what to do.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

I can't be Martin O'Neill; I can't be any of the other coaches - I have to make my own way.

On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

I've been through trades, having different coaches, everything under the sun.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

I think when coaches look at me, they don't see a prototypical running back.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.

Ric Charlesworth is a legendary figure. He is one of the best coaches in the world.

My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.

I think that what's happening is that girls are enjoying playing. It's a lot more acceptable, and now we have a Women's Super League with hugely dedicated female role models - really committed players who people can see are dedicated and training as hard if not harder than any male players - that's all progressing the sport.

When I went to Australia on the India A tour in 2014, I played on flat pitches against batsmen, some of whom were Test players. That experience taught me a lot, as I also was playing with a lot of Test players in our side as well, and I learned about being mentally tough.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

When I do get in that environment around other coaches, I do have an extra bounce in my step.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Football has changed, and so has the relationship between the players on the pitch. Where once some players would try everything to distract opponents, now it's harder. There are TV cameras everywhere, which have much higher quality images than before. There are lip readers in studios working out what you are saying to each other.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.