Shawn Kemp Quotes

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

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 still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.