A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
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.
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'
My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.
People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
I always travel with my coach and with my physio. And then when I'm in Europe, my parents, maybe they come to events.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
When you know how the coach ticks and how he wants to play football, it makes the decision easier. But for the main part, I came to England because of the club Manchester United.
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
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.
If you're a coach, you're a teacher.
I have never hidden my injury before, or fitness problems. Even my shoulder operation was planned after consulting the then coach Gary Kirsten and skipper MS Dhoni.
I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.
You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.
I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
You coach to your personality.
My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.
The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.
I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
I have tremendous respect for coach Gary Kubiak. I love that guy.
My coach and I will have these arguments where I am in pain or something is wrong, and I won't tell him because I feel like I need to train. We have a blow-up of arguments, and he says, 'Shelly, you need to tell me when these things are happening.'
I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.
