Assistant Coaches Quotes

The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for these multiple coaches and assistant coaches - I wouldn't give that back for anything, because I believe that's going to prepare me for my next step, whether that's going to be on the floor coaching or in an office doing some type of management work. ~ Drew Gooden

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years. ~ Darrell Royal

We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10. ~ Masai Ujiri

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun. ~ Dean Smith

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff. ~ Rebecca Lobo

She was tired of playing the dutiful assistant to a great man. ~ Laurel Corona

Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership. ~ Thomas G. Bandy

My numbers and my stats were exactly the same. I was doing what the coaches wanted me to do. And what I had been doing up to that point was enough to get me a very well-paying contract with the Vikings ... In my mind there was only one thing that had changed from the year before and the year I got cut: And that was I started speaking out in support of same-sex rights. ~ Chris Kluwe

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank. ~ Flavor Flav

I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations. ~ Brendan Rodgers

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played. ~ Richard Sherman

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring. ~ Robert Walser

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating. ~ Kim Yuna

If we just knew which end to start with,' Lamen said. It was suddenly obvious that Lamen had no idea what to do. With a clear moment of insight, Charls saw that Lamen was not a cloth merchant's assistant. He was the prince's private companion, and had no real skills whatsoever. 'Guilliame, ~ C.S. Pacat

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it
namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign. ~ Mark Twain

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal justice system - right here - through the gateway into Gibraltar, where the vans were lined up. That was about 150 new cases, 150 more pumping hearts and morose glares, every week that the courts and the Bronx County District Attorney's Office were open. And to what end? The same stupid, dismal, pathetic, horrifying crimes were committed day in and day out, all the same. What was accomplished by assistant D.A.'s, by any of them, through all this relentless stirring of the muck? The Bronx crumbled and decayed a little more, and a little more blood dried in the cracks. The Doubts! One thing was accomplished for sure. The system was fed, and those vans brought in the chow. ~ Tom Wolfe

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status. ~ Sheridan Morley

•"…it is easy to read that this game is more than just a game, it is a culmination of a group of coaches and boys on a mission to not just experience, but rather to achieve something that only they believe is truly possible. ~ George M. Gilbert

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year. ~ Abe Lemons

I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team. ~ Melanie Roach

Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself! ~ Alan Lewis

Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys. ~ Cammi Granato

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. ~ Lincoln Child

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general. ~ Jennie Finch

The "etiquette of freedom," to use poet Gary Snyder's phrase. It encompasses small acts like teaching your children to be honest in their dealings with others. It includes serving on community councils and as soccer coaches. It means leaving a place in better shape than you found it. It means helping others during hard times and being able to ask for help. It means resisting the temptation to call a problem someone else's. ~ Eric Liu

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true. ~ Bill Hader

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant, ~ Philippe Starck

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. ~ Richard Seymour

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign. ~ Mark Twain

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life. ~ Gordon Ramsay

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office. ~ Chuck Pagano

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is ... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about. ~ Michael Kay

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. ~ Hamish Bowles

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches. ~ Doug Collins

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier. ~ Kyle Chandler

You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there. ~ Mark Rippetoe

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning. ~ Jillian Ellis

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. ~ Thomas Perez

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. ~ John Irving

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning. ~ Brendan Daly

The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that." ~ Tim Foley

I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here. ~ Nick Saban

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment. ~ Joe Namath

Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit. ~ Jon Gordon