Best Coaches Quotes

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway. ~ Magnus Carlsen

The best coaches I've been around, even older guys, are continually learning new ways to do things and new ways to teach. ~ Brendan Daly

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that. ~ Vince Kehres

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football. ~ Mario Balotelli

We wanted you to achieve the greatest osteomancy you were capable of."
"What if I wanted to be a professional baseball player?"
"Then we would have found you the best coaches and bought you a really good mitt. Did you want to be a professional baseball player?"
"Naw. I got hit in the eye with a ball once and set it on fire. ~ Greg Van Eekhout

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800. ~ David Rudisha

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the best coaches in the world in my opinion and in many other people's opinion but it really it comes down to the number of sparring partners. I go to my gym and I have 10 fighters fighting on the local level but when you go over there it's like 30 fighters all fighting in the UFC or other bigger shows. That's really the main thing; the numbers. ~ Anthony Perosh

Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do. ~ Lorii Myers

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. ~ Grant Teaff

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more. ~ Andre Agassi

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. ~ Mary Stewart

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team. ~ George Vecsey

Youth need coaches, not critics. ~ Amit Kalantri

Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!") ~ Nicholas Dawidoff

I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find. ~ Craig Finn

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all. ~ Joseph Dalton Hooker

How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we've said all along, is just to coach 'em up. ~ Randy Carlyle

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. ~ Kevin Garnett

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play. ~ John Kessel

I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering. ~ Alex Ferguson

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful. ~ Dennis Bergkamp

I had a firm policy never to charge up my team on an emotional level. I believe that for every artificial peak you may create there is a valley, and i don't like valleys. Games can be lost in valleys. The ideal is an ever-mounting graph line that peaks with your final performance. There will be difficulty and adversity to overcome, but that is necessary to become stronger. Other coaches believe in charging a team up. I never did and never will. I sought a calm assurances in our dressing room, and a calm assurance warming up on the floor, and ad calm assurance in my final remarks before going out to play. ~ John Wooden

It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by. ~ George M. Gilbert

I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. ~ Larry Gelwix

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you. ~ Bob Proctor

Helping teacher leaders come to understand their gifts is the first step in developing a specialty. Some leaders are great coaches and should focus on instructional leadership in a district or network where that is valued and supported. Great conceptual thinkers are good in startup mode but the daily grind of leading a school doesn't suit them. Other leaders thrive on the turnaround challenge. The dynamic blended future of education will allow more role specialization. ~ Tom Vander Ark

I definitely admire Blair Walsh the most. He's actually a pretty close friend of mine. Just how he went through his senior year at Georgia, I kind of went through the same struggles. He's been able to coach me through everything and help me. Everyone is there for a reason, and they're all great. On and off the field, there's a reason they're there. ~ Kyle Brindza

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study. ~ Gabe Polsky

I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job. ~ Jalen Rose

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete. ~ Bill Bowerman

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo! ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. (Coach Gregg) Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach (Don) Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself. ~ Avery Johnson

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five. ~ Jurgen Klinsmann

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. ~ John Madden

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. ~ Anatoly Karpov

I believe that coaches and athletes should realize that the athletic department field, court or diamond can be made an extension of the classroom, a place where you and your teammates are learning more than just how to prepare to win. The field, the court, and the diamond should be places where athletes are constantly learning about the game in which they participate, about their coaches and teammates, and perhaps most importantly, about themselves. ~ Phillip Shriver

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something ... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there. ~ Brendan Rodgers

Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that's the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college. ~ Jordan Spieth

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

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much. ~ Eli Manning

The coach is first of all a teacher. ~ John Wooden

In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown. ~ Allen Iverson

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started. ~ Emil Zatopek

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. ~ Bill Gates

It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals. ~ Lisa Stone

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved. ~ Daniella Alonso