Top 1200 Player To Coach Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I cannot compare myself to Zico, he is a phenomenon of Brazilian football. He has done wonders as player and coach.

When you have a coach who pinpoints the places you're at most of the time you're on the court, you sort of become a player that's stuck in this box.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.

Coach K, he's just the most legendary coach to coach college basketball. I felt like going to Duke University I can learn a lot from him in my time there.

One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Louis van Gaal and I have a relationship that goes beyond that which is normal between a player and a coach.

I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

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.

Ottmar is a big coach and a good gentleman. I don't know if I'm a young Schweinsteiger; I'm another player. I am Granit Xhaka.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

I left Liverpool during the 1993-94 season to join Notts County as a player-coach under Howard Kendall.

If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

He was in Boston and I grew up in Orlando. It's not so much like father-son, it's coach-player.

I was always harsh on myself as a player and I am the same as a coach, but it's the only way I know how to improve.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

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 think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

Ancelotti spoke to everyone as a person, not just in a coach-to-player way. That doesn't happen often in football.

As a young player the most important thing besides having a very good coach is to play a lot because you improve that way.

As a player, you have a certain relationship with a coach or a number two, and it's a completely different to the one you have with the manager.

After 50 years as a player and a coach, I will not become a functionary. That's not my world.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

It's completely normal that every player wants to be a starter. But ultimately the coach decides and we have to accept it.

You're put into a box where you're either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.

All I know is Coach Cook said I'd be a pretty good sand player because I have all the shots.

A player needs to focus on one thing to be successful, while a coach is thinking about the whole process.

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.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

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 was really good, I had a coach who said to me, 'If you want to be a top player, you will need to play as a central defender. If you want to be a good player, you will be a midfielder.' I think he was wrong but, maybe as a central defender, I could be much better, I don't know!

Every player wants to play more than 45 minutes, but it's the decision of the coach. You have to work hard.

My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

You go the whole distance as a player, the last thing you probably want is the coach to say, 'Okay, you've gone this far, I'm going to take you out.'

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.

I have been a player and now I am the coach, so I understand both the roles well.

Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.

It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

I was always a player who demanded the maximum at training and to try to finish as high as possible. I have that as coach, too.

Coach Smart did a great job of just letting me come to terms with myself as a basketball player and a person.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

Coach isn't the one playing. The players do that. The coach can only help with planning so if the team loses, I don't think the coach is not as accountable as we hold him as a nation.

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.

Most players will tolerate their coach, just like the coach will tolerate that player to do what they got to do, but Steve Kerr is unique. Players want to play for Steve Kerr. Everyone who's played in this league, who's coached in this league, who's been a general manager understands exactly what I'm saying - he's one of them.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.