Top 1200 Good Coaches Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique and shows the players up!

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don't look right at the plate and getting me back on track.

If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!

I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or coaches.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can't say he's not in the top five, certainly.

Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Thomas Tuchel, Joachim Low... How many players can say they've had coaches like them?

Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have.

I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it's a transfer, 'these are our transfers.'

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games - players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

It used to be that the hardest thing to cover was underthrown balls. Then coaches began to think, 'So why not start throwing back-shoulder fades?'

Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.

There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it's about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.

Lovie Smith and I are not only the first two African-Americans but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way and we're more proud of that.

I am extremely lucky - I met Antonio Conte. I had so many coaches to compare him to, and he is the one that surprised me the most.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

It's all about patience and I'm sure my time will come. I'm learning what it takes to be successful and I'm doing the things the coaches tell me.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I would like to live in the country that wins less, but has more stability. Brazilian coaches remain, on average, in a job for three months.

I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.

Pep Guardiola was technically one of the best coaches, a tremendous enrichment. But I had the feeling that he thinks only in the grid and leaves out the people and the outside.

Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.

The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.

When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.

The captain tag is something that players vote on, head coaches they give their title to. It requires a player that you think exemplifies leadership.

Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid. We must find a middle ground.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

I've got good jiu-jitsu skills, good wrestling, good ground and pound, good power on my feet, good strikes.

I think the fact that we are trying to get as many young black and ethnic coaches involved in the game through campaigns to encourage that are important.

Kids of this day and age know you don't necessarily have to specialize in one sport no matter how much society and your coaches are pushing you towards that.

I watch a couple of fights to get a visual image in my head. I don't like doing a lot of research on my opponents; I leave that to my coaches.

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.