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The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.
Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.
My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.
You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.
That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.
Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.
I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.
I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
I always travel with my coach and with my physio. And then when I'm in Europe, my parents, maybe they come to events.
There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.
We had a rule-breaker at Mainz - the club manager Christian Heidel, who had the courage to make me a Bundesliga coach.
Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.
Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.
I always said in my career as a footballer, I owe everything to Newell's. But as a coach, I owe everything to Paraguay.
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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.
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.
We could fill up a whole hour's television show talking about coach's recruiting stories, I love them, they're the best.
To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day.
I'm a good coach. I do the right things for my players, and I try to support them; I try to help them almost to a fault.
If a coach wants me to stay, then I think it's good that he doesn't just butter things up, but actually tells the truth.
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.
I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.
My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, 'Hey, your guys play hard. They're tough.'
My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.
My best coach was Rudy Tomjanovich because he asked the players what they wanted to do. He felt we had a feel for the game.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.
Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.
So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.
I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.
Every organization is looking for... a guy who can be the coach for the next 10, 15 years. That's what they want. I get that.