It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
I call him 'Daddy Coach.' He's taught me everything that he's known so I'm able to do what I'm able to do.
You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
Coach should be a friend, not a coach. And at international level, all you need is a friend who can motivate you. Technique doesn't matter.
We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.
As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
