Chad Harbach Quotes

I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists - they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them.

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Look at the NBA players back when Magic and Kareem played in the early 80's with the short shorts, look at what Michael looked like when he first came in the league compared to when he left. Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people