Top 1200 Football Coach Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Bo Schembechler will go down in history as the greatest football coach. He knows the game, he works hard. And he's not a crook.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.

Someone like coach Belichick, with the success that he's had and sustained it for so long. He's obviously seen a lot of good football players.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

I'm not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I've been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.

When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can say one, two things in the beginning and then the actor has to follow what happens.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

Talent doesn't win football games. But talent, heart and desire do. A good coach will recognize what's inside.

You don't coach a Magic Johnson, you don't coach a LeBron, you don't coach really a Lonzo. They understand the game, they smart, they understand.

I want to play football for 20 more years. And then coach for 45 years after that.

It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons - for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that's all we're measured upon.

This isn't an easy lifestyle for a coach's wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.

Coach Wilks really embraces that growth mindset and trying to learn and grow every day so he's a good fundamental teacher. He understands the passing game which is important when you coach as a defensive coordinator and also as a secondary coach like he has, so he's one of the top-notch coaches in our business.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.

The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

Of course, on the road with me, I've got my coach, my own private physiotherapist. Back home, I have another coach who coaches me and also does all my racquets. I have a fitness trainer. I have a mental coach. It's a pretty big team.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

I never want a coach to feel like he needs to be my friend, I always want a coach to be the coach and I'm the type of guy that wants to be held accountable all the time, so I respect coaches.

A coach - any coach, not just a national team coach - should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.

Klopp is a great expert in football and I always said that I'd have liked to work with him when I was in my best form. He is a complete coach, he has everything.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.

I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

I wouldn't coach football now for nothing, and it's because of social media. That just bothers the heck out of me. People blast ya and you don't put their name down.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

I didn't start playing football on a team until 11th grade. I only got to go out then because the coach brought me home from practice.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It's up to the coach the position I play.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

Any coach in football doesn't like national team games because it's out of your hands; you can't really control what's going to happen.

While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach’s enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. “What was that for?” the coach demanded.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

My dad is a high school football coach in Texas so I've been around this game for a long time.

Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.

Stepping down after 18 years as the head football coach here at Oklahoma, and I feel like I've absolutely been the luckiest, most fortunate guy in the world.

I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.

I love Coach K's passion to coach his players and to coach the game. I examined and watched the interaction between him and his staff, along with the players, and was impressed how hard they played.