Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

I'm interested in coaching.

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

I'm a fan of coaching.

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

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

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

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

When I was playing, I had that passion and fire, cussing everybody out, but I had the opportunity to change that being out on the floor. But now that I'm coach, I can still have my passion, but I just have to tone it down.

You coach to your personality.

Coaching the national team would be great.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

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

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

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

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.

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.

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

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

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.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.