Top 1200 Coaches And Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.

I've been through a lot and played for a long time, so I can understand what others will go through. That's why I want to help them out. There are a lot of players who go to Belgium, for example, and have had terrible experiences. I know players, and they have come to me.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

The foreign players have arrived in India to give our contribution in order to improve the Indian League, to make it more smart, more well-known, more open, and also to prove our quality along with Indian players.

I always work hard and listen to the coaches and the tips that they give me.

There are a lot of high school coaches out there who could coach in college or the NFL.

What I like about the USTA is that it's developing systems to help the coaches coach better.

Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.

In the Premier League, there are all the most important coaches in Europe, maybe the world.

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

I just want to go out there and try to get my respect from my teammates and my coaches.

If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

When I put my head in my hands after missing a chance, that annoys the coaches a little.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.

Barcelona, the tournament is, for all the Spanish players, an amazing event. I think is one of the top events on tour because is a historic event with a lot of tradition. A lot of years of the tournament, a lot of great players have been playing there. And it's in a real tennis club.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

I have learned from all of my coaches, and I am sure I will learn a lot with Guardiola.

I like having my familiarity and my specific coaches there telling me what I need to do.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

You want to win things, you want the best players to come to Manchester United and if we're playing better and we're winning things and we're challenging for things then we're going to attract the best players.

If you talk to my former coaches, they'll tell you that I'm really smart on the football field.

You don't find a lot of coaches who cares more about you as a person than the results.

I think the biggest thing for everybody in this league is the respect of their peers. A lot of the things we do, the way we compete, is for everybody in this league to respect as good players. Whether GMs see it or not or people on the outside, we want the respect of players.

Some players need it and some don't. Some have a little too much confidence. But bench players, guys in secondary roles, just need a shot of confidence all the time.

Not any particular position, just whatever the coaches ask of me, I try to do.

Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

There's a lot of coaches who are just going to try to save themselves before saving you.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

If our players start to see coaching as a dead end, where is the next Ferguson, the next Clough or Shankly? It's sad. How will players see a pathway, how are they going to see a future if even the England job goes abroad?

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

Learning from the best is easy and it isn't just footballers, coaches should also learn.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

When you get in this profession, you want the coaches to put more on your plate.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Triple H and all the coaches have been very helpful and supportive of everything that I have done.

It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

There are lots of aspects to work on my game, which the coaches do with me every day.

I get in the gym and put the work in with the fitness coaches so I can be the best shape I can be in.

Since 2012, we have had only consultant coaches. They fine-tuned my basics.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.

When evaluating the players, too little emphasis is placed on the individual. Reaction times are measured, stress situations are simulated, sleep behaviour is analysed, eating behaviour, how the body reacts - everything is available. The control over the players has got out of hand. They are judged on this data, albeit subjectively. That's madness.

Rafael Benitez and Mourinho are coaches with different ideas, but both want to win.

What makes me so confident is my coaches, my team: they are the best in the world, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here.

Naturally, managers and coaches are trying to find different ways to work.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don't rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest.

You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.'