Coach Quotes

I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

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.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

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.

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.

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.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.