Guy Forget Quotes

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

Zidane is not a coach, but he is a teacher.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

Pogba has never stopped improving. He has everything to become a great player. If he keeps his head on his shoulders, he can make history.

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their cultures. The result, in terms of motivated learners and test scores, often is spectacular.

The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique and shows the players up!

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

What you realize is when you have an environment and an atmosphere like we had at Marist, where guys cared about each other, the coaches were great teachers and communicators, whether it's high school, college or pro, I think coaching is coaching.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together.