Robert Mathis Quotes

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

I've always tried to help younger players and to talk with everyone.

Anytime you can help a younger player out that's what you're supposed to do.

I believe in order to coach, you've got to start at the ground level. The same way I learned how to play basketball.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

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

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

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.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

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

I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.