Ryan Day Quotes

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

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

You can't make the kid feel like he just made three mistakes in a row and you're pumping him up. No. There's a balance to it. It's, 'Listen, here's why you did what you did. Don't do it next time, and you'll be OK.'

And some of the best coaching you can do is not telling kids something.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

Unai's very positive and always telling you to express yourself, but also he's got that thing where he'll tell you if you do something wrong.

You coach to your personality.

It's part of my role to push the guys around me to be the best they can be. I think that's part of being a leader.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

Every coach has his way of working.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'

Once all of this is over, I'm definitely going into coaching. I want to change and help people's lives in many different ways.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.