Coach Quotes

You want your coach's blessing.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

I will never coach again. I don't want to, but I wouldn't even if I did.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

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

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.

I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

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

I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.