Top 1200 Football Coach Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The idea of developing football and winning trophies at Real Madrid does not fall in line with how I see football.

I'm not afraid to coach guys. But I am going to coach them to win, and I am going to hold them to a high standard.

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and the coach yells, 'One-two, one-two low kick.' Whatever it is, you don't really hear stuff. When you're in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.

We grew up with my family being very passionate about two sports, American football and British football.

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

If you take guys that love the grind of football and who are passionate about football, it should click regardless if they have the proper talent.

I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything. You have to.

I like the Common Goal initiative, the vision of football as a tool for social change and the power football has to improve the world.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

Football is a passion and I could not live that in Arabian football.

I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually lost out on many jobs, several jobs, and the complaint that I got was, 'Well, he doesn't fit the mold of a head coach. He doesn't look the part. He's not gonna jump up and down. He's not going to scream.'

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

When I started to play football as far I was concerned I just played football. I didn't want all the stuff around it, the press and that.

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

Women's football will always be different from men's football, but that doesn't mean you cannot still appreciate it. OK, so it might be a bit slower than the men's game, but then League Two football is slower than the Champions League, and it doesn't stop people turning out to see their local teams.

Qatar is improving a lot in football, my colleague Xavi talks to me about the fantastic development of football here.

It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

My favorite player of all time is Deion Sanders, so football is my first love. When I was little, I focused more on football, definitely.

I really thought to myself, 'If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I can be.' I have a tennis coach that has taken me as far as my body can go. I hired a private skiing coach during my birthday week. I have a private yoga instructor. I just don't understand why you wouldn't give yourself every advantage.

Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we're out on the football field. We're working out or playing Madden. We're spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

Football is a game. So you need to enjoy your football.

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

European football is the same as any other football.

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

My dad is a fan of football, too, and did a good job of making me understand the history of football.

Coach [Pat] Riley's record speaks for itself. What makes him so special is he is a coach clearly concerned about winning. His whole thinking when he wakes up every day is how can I make this team [ New York Knicks] more focused and going through 82 games during the regular season and the playoffs.

Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

I am a football fan, I've watched football my whole life. When my favourite team didn't do well I'd get angry.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

I don't watch football like outside of football, really.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.