Coaching Quotes

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.