James Anderson Quotes

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

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

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

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.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

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

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.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.