Andy Dalton Quotes

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

For me there is so many factors in football, that's why it's the greatest team game. There are so many things that lead into having success, just like when you have a ton of success and when you have no success, it's not just you.

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.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

I want to win football games.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.

You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.

In the end, every coach wants the same - that's to win.

The players do their thing on the pitch, and there's a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.

When I played in the Australia team the captains were all nerds. Allan Border was a nerd, Mark Taylor was a nerd, Steve Waugh was definitely a nerd and Ricky Ponting too.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

We are footballers, not artists.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

From my early days of playing 2:2 in basketball against my three older brothers to my years playing Division 1 college basketball and lacrosse, sports have played a big role in my leadership development.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

The competitor in me wants to play, but it's not my job to make that decision. That's what the coaches are paid for.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

It was a winning team and there were lots of important footballing lessons that I learned in Juventus.

Every coach wants to win, but it's not easy to do that.

All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into the training sessions. They are very hard taskmasters.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.