Dan Devine Quotes

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

We could all use more coaching.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

I'm interested in coaching.

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

I'm just here to be a leader and work on my game, work on my jump-hooks, my low-post game and just continue to get better. That's all that matters.

I'm a fan of coaching.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

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

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.