Top 1200 Football Coach Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.

I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.

I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.

We hated to see Coach Riley go. Coach Riley is a very smart individual and he knows his coaching style. He also knows how long to stay with it and move on. He is a very demanding individual. When you coach at that level like that it tends to whirl the players.

With all due respect to Coach O'Brien and Coach Godsey, I've told them I'm going to be me.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

Obviously I need a coach, but it's not the main thing in my team. I can play good even without a coach.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

I love Coach Zimmer. He's a tough head coach who stands behind his players 100 percent.

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

Sacchi was a good coach. He wanted to play pressure football. The good thing was that he created a good group with lots of discipline. Working together was the key. You had to do your work to help the team and that was all important.

This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football

That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.

If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

Duke as a program speaks for itself. Coach K is the greatest coach of all time.

A good coach is one who realises what he could have done better, and when you lose, it's the responsibility of the coach.

When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.

If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

I'm not coach D'Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot of us have stolen from him.

He went about things a certain way, but no one can say Thibs wasn't a good coach. He was a hell of a coach.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren't signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

In the end, all we need to remember is Slavisa has promoted a club from the Championship to the Premier League and has managed sides at the highest level of football. In other words, Slavisa is exactly the head coach we need.

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

English football, especially Premier League football, is different to most football on the continent.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.

In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

I think before the kids, this was different - when I came home it was football, football, football all the time, every day. Now I have another balance in my life.

Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.

I'm not gonna coach just because I have to coach, but if it's right and it was fun I'd love to make another run.

There's a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who'd make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.

Even Coach K thinks he can be a better coach each and every day.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.