Quotes and Sayings about Coaches

They fire coaches before players.

Behin every fearless player is a fearless coach who refused to let them be anything but the best they can be.

The coach is always as good and as bad as the player. When the player loses, it's the coaches fault. When the player wins, the coach made a great job. It's the same in tennis and in football.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

Before lockdown, at times when the game was tough you couldn't normally hear the coaches that much, but now you can hear them a lot and that definitely helps.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

How would I coach LeBron and Lonzo? Guess what, less coaching is the best coaching. Let them do what they do.

My son sent me a video about raging coaches - I was in there three times.

Everyone who knows me, knows that I follow my instincts more than instructions from coaches.

I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. l came to teach boys, and you became men.

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Guys, the sky is not falling. We handed them 20 points. They didn't hurt us in the first half - we hurt ourselves.

They just want to win. That's kind of been the general theme with all the guys and it's a good locker room. It's a young locker room. We just got to get them to come together and find the leaders of the group and get them going.

Does the person in TV have to be better than the one watching at home?

Sometimes, I feel like I'm 40. Tennis years are like dog years.

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

I'm an extension of the coach on the floor.

What a team Man City are - you have seen what they did in the Premier League.

The fans clapping along to The Liquidator when we walk out. That is definitely one that means a lot.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?

My title is LaVar Ball, the big baller, the CEO of the Big Baller Brand.

I will leave the club at the end of the season. I love absolutely everything about this club. I love everything about the city. I love everything about our supporters. I love the team. I love the staff. I love everything. I'm running out of energy. I know that I cannot do the job again and again.

I stay for another two years. "Why?" is now the question... because Ulla wants to stay. And as a good husband, what are you doing when your wife wants to stay? You stay. That's not the only reason. I love our club and it's the best place to be.

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone

Liverpool FC is a great club, and the fans are amongst the best in the world.

When Dortmund won here for the last time, 19 years ago, most of my players have still been quenched.

Ed Sheeran did what I haven't seen too often before: Make people smile when leaving the Schalke Arena.

I'd be very happy to play with the guys of this generation.