“Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.”
“I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I’m doing.”
“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”
“I was living in my coach’s basement.”
“I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.”
“At Southampton, my dad was the academy coach at under-11 level.”
“I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.”
“When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I’ve kind of embraced it through the years.”
“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.”
“I came to Chelsea because one club and one coach believed in me.”
“Real Madrid needs a coach that knows the club and understands the values that it represents.”
“I know that us girls aren’t the easiest to coach.”
“I don’t know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.”
“This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.”
“It’s the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.”
“I don’t think I can coach.”
“The coach is the one who eventually decides who makes the starting XI.”
“I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.”
“Well, my mum’s been a tennis coach – she coached me till I was 12.”
“I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.”
“I had a vocal coach. It’s a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.”
“When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.”
“The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.”
“You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.”
“Van Gaal is the best coach I’ve had. We’ve got a very special relationship.”
“Every new coach is interesting.”
“When I came to PSV, I signed when Eric Gerets was coach there.”
“Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.”
“I’m a player, the coaches coach.”
“I love Coach Koetter.”
“I don’t want to be a Major League coach.”
“Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.”
“My father – who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I’ve even known – next to him, Coach Lombardi was a piece of cake.”
“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.”
“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 happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would’ve been good.”
“If your coach ain’t got your back, who’s got your back?”
“I know I’m a really good coach.”
“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.”
“If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.”
“The fans, with all due respect, they don’t affect the decisions I would make as a coach.”
“A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.”
“But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.”
“CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this – or any type of physical activity.”
“When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.”
“Even Spartacus needs a coach.”
“It’s not any one person. It’s not any one coach. It’s the team.”
“You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.”
“You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.”
“I have tremendous respect for coach Gary Kubiak. I love that guy.”
“Coach Knapp is a tremendous quarterbacks coach.”
“With all due respect to Coach O’Brien and Coach Godsey, I’ve told them I’m going to be me.”
“I love working with Coach O’Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.”
“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.”
“The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.”
“Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn’t appeal.”
“Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.”
“No one likes a change of coach.”
“Your favorite coach is the one who constantly yells at you.”
“No, I don’t want to coach. I don’t want to coach.”
“I’m the only idiot the that decided to coach in my family.”
“The better players you get, the better coach you are.”
“When I’m older and my children have grown up, I would like to coach in the NBA.”
“I bought into everything Coach K preached to us. His whole philosophy.”
“It was definitely tough being the coach’s son.”
“I’ll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.”
“Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don’t meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don’t get their degree.”
“The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.”
“I’m not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.”
“I love the trips that I’ve experienced as a player and a coach.”
“I’m going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.”
“I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything!”
“Marty Schottenheimer knows how to win, and that’s what Redskins fans demand in a coach.”
“I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.”
“I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.”
“I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.”
“I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.”
“You coach to your personality.”
“I’m not coach D’Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot of us have stolen from him.”
“I knew as an assistant coach it wasn’t my place to overstep the head coach.”
“My first career was as a coach and a teacher.”
“Every coach has his own philosophy.”
“Mano Menezes is a fantastic coach, but Scolari is a fantastic coach, too, as well as being more experienced.”
“Scolari is a fantastic coach, a fantastic man, and he is so transparent.”
“I’ve always been my own hitting coach.”
“I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.”
“I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.”
“It’s not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.”
“I’d give my life to be the national team coach.”
“John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.”
“When I raced, I had great parents, even a greater coach and a nutritionist. I was never insecure.”
“Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.”
“I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.”
“Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.”
“For every striker, it’s important to have the confidence of the coach.”
“The worst coach I have ever had was Roberto Mancini. I never liked his training methods.”
“The best coach I have ever worked with is certainly Jose Mourinho. He has an unparalleled passion.”
“I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.”
“She told me I wasn’t playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.”
“I don’t like to see any coach get sacked – not Lopetegui, not the Huesca coach, not the Granada coach, and, of course, not the Barca coach.”
“I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.”
“I would love to coach. I’m not saying I’m qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.”
“Speaking about Mourinho is always controversial, and there’s always some intrigue surrounding him. But he is an awesome coach who tries to take the maximum from each and every one of his players.”
“You don’t have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.”
“In the end, every coach wants the same – that’s to win.”
“Mourinho is a great coach, and I respect the way he works.”
“Often I’d say I understood the coach, then do my own thing on the field.”
“I came to Roma because the president here and the coach have a great will to win, and that’s what I have, too.”
“A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.”
“Irrespective of whether Anil Kumble is the coach or Ravi Shastri, what’s more important is that India wins.”
“I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I’d rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.”
“I’m not cut out to be a coach.”
“It’s very special to be the coach of the best player in the world.”
“I didn’t make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.”
“I think it’s very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.”
“Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.”
“Every coach has a different style and approach.”
“I’m the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.”
“Let me just be very clear: I’m just hopeful the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”
“That’s what you don’t see about coach Saban. He’s a very funny guy.”
“Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.”
“If the coach is good, I don’t think a psychologist is needed.”
“How can a coach have any influence over a player that’s making over five times more than he is?”
“Regarding Jose Mourinho, I hope I can learn a lot from him – he is a coach with a fantastic record.”
“Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.”
“I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches – Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.”
“Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.”
“There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of guys did.”
“I loved playing for Coach Ambrose, and I definitely love playing for Coach Wright.”
“Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach.”
“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.”
“When a coach loses a team… that’s when a coach is kind of done.”
“I think it’s a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it’s unacceptable if they’re not.”
“Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.”
“I just coach and get my guys ready.”
“I’m a head coach. I’m not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.”
“Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches… in year 11.”
“Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.”
“You don’t know a player until you coach him.”
“Often, organizations don’t know how good they have it with a player or coach.”
“I never lost the desire to coach.”
“Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.”
“The head coach is the chemist.”
“I take class at the Groundlings, and my personal coach is Lesley Kahn.”
“When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.”
“If I had taken ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ I would never have gotten ‘Coach’ because I would have been established as Gilligan.”
“Pellegrini is a coach who has given a lot in every place he has been, with very nice football.”
“The players do their thing on the pitch, and there’s a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.”
“You coach to coach. You don’t coach to satisfy media, satisfy fans.”
“I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That’s what I want to be.”
“Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it’s a great team sport, so I don’t get carried away with a bunch of accolades.”
“Everybody needs a coach.”
“I’m just going to do my job, what coach wants me to do, be a defensive piece, and when needed to be a scorer, I’m going to be that.”
“I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I’m still looking for stories no one else has written.”
“I’m not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.”
“They want it all – all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don’t coach at Kentucky if you can’t accept that.”
“The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn’t give up for anything.”
“Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.”
“All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.”
“In ’92 I got my first coach and had it for two, three years. My wife hated it.”
“I have a lot of respect for Coach Arians.”
“I have a coach and I have a chiropractor, who works to keep me healthy. I pay their salaries. I pay for their flights as we travel around the world on a weekly basis, and I pay for their hotels and meals while we’re on tour.”
“I haven’t really worked with, like, a mental coach or anything.”
“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
“I’m sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.”
“It’s a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.”
“I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.”
“That’s a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.”
“Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that’s why his teams are successful.”
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
“If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.”
“I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it’s been 60 years!”
“All it takes is one coach that believes in you.”
“If I ever come back and coach, I’m never huddling again!”
“When you’re the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.”
“I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.”
“All I ever wanted to do was coach, ’cause I knew I wasn’t gonna be a player.”
“I wasn’t the most well-liked person in Canton. I was a coach’s son who played quarterback. It was tough at times.”
“I’m the Real Madrid coach, and the demands are huge.”
“When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.”
“I think that the Bayern coach is the second hardest job in Germany after the Chancellor.”
“I have no ambition to become Germany coach.”
“A coach must be at one with his players.”
“Wenger is a great coach.”
“After 50 years as a player and a coach, I will not become a functionary. That’s not my world.”
“If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he’s lost the team.”
“I like Seedorf. He is a good coach.”
“At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.”
“My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.”
“When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.”
“My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.”
“When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.”
“Sometimes Kellen calls me ‘Coach.’ Sometimes he calls me ‘Pops.’”
“I don’t think the fans pull for or against a coach.”
“I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.”
“Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.”
“Mike D’Antoni is a great offensive mind. He’s a great coach.”
“I was overwhelmed meeting him. I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t know whether to call him ‘Coach Russell,’ ‘Bill,’ or ‘Mr. Russell.’”
“The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.”
“I have no desire to coach basketball.”
“Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.”
“A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.”
“I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.”
“One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.”
“A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.”
“I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.”
“I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.”
“You need a long-term coach to be able to win.”
“A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.”
“It’s very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.”
“A lot of rookies don’t come into the league and have that type of leeway that Coach Walton and his staff really gave me.”
“I’m very grateful to Coach Saban.”
“There’s not a day goes by that I don’t ask, What would Coach Saban do?”
“My greatest inspiration is my coach, Maggie Haney.”
“But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.”
“I started out wanting to coach football.”
“I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.”
“Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.”
“The typical German coach wants things done one way – his way.”
“Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.”
“I always thought I’d be a coach, but I’m still open to everything.”
“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.”
“When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.”
“With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn’t speak with me about tactics.”
“I like it if a coach enjoys himself and is passionate.”
“Every coach wants to train Manchester United; it’s one of the biggest clubs in the world.”
“A player needs to focus on one thing to be successful, while a coach is thinking about the whole process.”
“I have nothing against Unai. I respect him. he is a very good coach.”
“It’s difficult to be a coach.”
“Every coach talks to their players. Imagine not talking to Lionel Messi – that would be ridiculous.”
“Ernesto Valverde is a great coach.”
“I think Arsenal would be good for a German coach.”
“Arsene Wenger is a good guy and a good coach.”
“It’s not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.”
“My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.”
“When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot – maybe too much – in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.”
“Any coach who’s managed a big club in Argentina can manage anywhere.”
“Whenever the coach gives me minutes, I’ll try to take advantage of them.”
“Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.”
“I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.”
“Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.”
“There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.”
“When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I’d be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it’s become a habit.”
“Players are saying, ‘I don’t have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something’.”
“Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn’t know what the gender was of the tennis coach.”
“For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.”
“I have always been convinced of my qualities and never doubted what I’m capable of, even if a coach is judged by his results.”
“To coach with your brother at any level is really special.”
“A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.”
“I’m not going to be a coach or a director – they are not roles that I would like.”
“If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.”
“Mourinho is a great coach. He has told me he believes in me, both in person but also publicly.”
“I’m going to watch basketball regardless of whether I coach or watch it on TV.”
“I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.”
“Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.”
“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.”
“I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.”
“I will never coach again. I don’t want to, but I wouldn’t even if I did.”
“My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.”
“It’s special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.”
“I’m a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys… but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.”
“It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country’s coach.”
“Of course you want to coach in the Bundesliga when you move into coaching.”
“I always accept the decisions of the coach.”
“I don’t have a coach. I haven’t had a coach for, like, years.”
“You’ve got to coach with what you have and who’s available.”
“One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.”
“I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.”
“If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.”
“Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.”
“For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world.”
“Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that’s not an indicator of cluelessness.”
“A coach should not stir up headlines after a match.”
“No, I’m not coaching. It’s a huge responsibility to coach somebody.”
“Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn’t have anything which is, live with. I didn’t have a friend so I didn’t have a coach anymore.”
“Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She’s a perfect coach.”
“It’s very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.”
“I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.”
“Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.”
“The job as a coach is difficult.”
“I don’t like the idea of being a coach.”
“My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.”
“A rookie coach must be supported by a very strong structure and not get burned.”
“I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.”
“Winning a ring is everybody’s goal, whether you’re a player or a coach.”
“The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.”
“I didn’t do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.”
“I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.”
“What a footballer wants above all else is to win, regardless of who the coach is.”
“But I haven’t met a player or a coach whose goal isn’t to win the Super Bowl.”
“During Wimbledon, I ate only rice and pineapple. My coach cooked for me. He made sweet rice.”
“It is for sure a big part of the coach’s job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.”
“The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.”
“Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.”
“There’s no shortcut to being a manager or coach.”
“I have the full confidence of the coach, and that’s extremely important to me.”
“Mourinho’s a great coach. He is ambitious and a winner.”
“The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.”
“I’m an extension of the coach on the floor.”
“I might be out of the league if I didn’t have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.”
“Ask any player. You’re only as good as your coach allows you to be.”
“I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.”
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
“I am a coach. I don’t have to have a title. I have five children that need guidance.”
“I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.”
“Nobody thought I would be a great coach.”
“When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He’s not from a different country. He’s from a different planet.”
“A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.”
“A team takes on the personality of the head coach.”
“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.”
“Klopp is a great tactician and a great coach.”
“I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.”
“Klopp is a fantastic guy. I rate him as an extremely professional coach, perfectionist, and a winning mentality.”
“To lead your country is the crowning ambition for any coach.”
“I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.”
“Anytime you’re playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you’ve got to be very disciplined.”
“I wouldn’t mind being a track and field coach.”
“I’m a football manager, a football coach; I can’t be expected to pontificate on everything.”
“I’m not surprised to be the coach on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’”
“We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T’s.”
“I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.”
“There was interest from a lot of clubs, not just Manchester United, but as soon as I knew Liverpool were interested, I just felt it was the right club with the right coach. It was right for me to come here.”
“I coach defending an awful lot but I don’t think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.”
“Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.”
“Wenger is the best coach I’ve worked with.”
“When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Voyager,’ and I hired an acting coach.”
“When I say I played with the greatest, let’s not forget I also played for the greatest coach of all time.”
“There are certain players, certain leaders where, genuine and authentic, their message is going to resonate different than a coach.”
“Matt LaFleur’s a great coach.”
“It’s up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.”
“My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.”
“I have a coach, but I’m not theater-trained or a technical actor.”
“I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.”
“It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.”
“For sure, I need a coach, because at this level, you cannot do it alone.”
“Coach Coughlin, he’s one of the best coaches I’ve ever had. He’s one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.”
“I myself have the utmost respect for Coach Coughlin.”
“If I’m going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I’m not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.”
“There’s no such thing as a longtime Magic coach.”
“George Karl’s son probably wouldn’t have made it to the NBA if he wasn’t a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.”
“The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.”
“I don’t want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I’ll be playing golf four or five times a week.”
“I miss my coach. I love my coach. I miss Chuck Noll.”
“A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.”
“Louis van Gaal and I have a relationship that goes beyond that which is normal between a player and a coach.”
“I’m pretty sure everybody in the NBA wants to make the playoffs. Every player, every coach, every organization wants to make the playoffs.”
“In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they’d fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.”
“If you’ve got a coach that overlooks the problems, then you’ve got problems.”
“It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.”
“I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.”
“I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.”
“I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn’t a coach.”
“I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.”
“A friendly relationship with the coach is important for each player.”
“Ancelotti would be an interesting option for Bundesliga clubs. Of course, there would only be one or two clubs in Germany that would be an option for a world-class coach like him.”
“New stimuli can come from the same coach if he questions himself.”
“It’s definitely harder being a dad than a coach.”
“Our God is a great coach, and he’s got a great playbook.”
“I think when the cameras are on him is when Coach Switzer is at his best.”
“I had a great relationship with Coach Nee. I liked Doc Sadler a lot.”
“LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.”
“I’m not the kind of coach who says, ‘Let’s do a few piggy-in-the-middle exercises and go home for lunch.’”
“I was the coach in Valencia, and this was when Pochettino was finishing his playing career. And we met in Valencia watching the Chile training sessions. And a few months later, he took over as coach of Espanyol.”
“Every coach wants to win, but it’s not easy to do that.”
“My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.”
“I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.”
“My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.”
“I didn’t really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.”
“Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.”
“Every coach desires to bring in his own support staff.”
“Jose Mourinho was a very good coach.”
“I’m a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.”
“My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.”
“I think, as a coach, you’ve got to do what your players can do.”
“My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.”
“I have a mental coach, which is super cool, but it’s also kind of eerie at times.”
“Mourinho is a coach who is used to working under pressure.”
“I’m no longer the head football coach at Ohio State.”
“Of course Zidane has surprised me as a coach. I didn’t know how he would do.”
“When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.”
“When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.”