Coaching Quotes - Page 13

Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.

Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

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

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

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.

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.

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.

It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Coaching is a powerful relationship for people who are making important changes in their lives.

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

I do a lot of coaching with my friends on how to get out of relationships with their agents, boyfriends, contractors, whatever, because that's easy for me.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.