Richard Krajicek Quotes

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know where you parked your car!

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

Am I too loyal to my players? I could be, could be.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

My wife runs the house. She raised our kids with me only partly there. It's just what coaching is. A lot of times, you're raising other people's children, sometimes at the expense of your own. I hope that wasn't the case with my children, but at times, it probably was.

Educating players and being part of the community are very important.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

Me and Steve Eyre, the coach at Manchester City, used to stay behind for ages after more or less every session.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I don't see myself coaching because the intensity of that is massive, and the intensity as a manager, for example Arsene Wenger, is even more.

The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

In today's sport, coaches are in a partnership with their top players.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

My only focus is to try to assess and to provide the players with better tools to perform.