Lou Holtz Quotes

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

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.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

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

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

You can be the best coach in the world, but if you don't have the players, you cannot get results.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

All really successful coaches have a system.

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.