coaching quotes

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.