Zico Quotes

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

I always say that if you stay with a good coach, the relationship between him and his team becomes like a family: he becomes a father with his children.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

... by example and by kind moral influence.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

I just feel like everyone should be working together and congratulating, be big upping each other instead of getting in they feelings and being jealous at younger cats.

It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

At WSX the message was loud and clear consistently, even as a rookie signing a contract and kind of talking about things and getting into the nitty-gritty details. I felt like I was always given a lot of respect and in fact sometimes I thought they were almost tooting my own horn too loud I thought it was almost silly.

Surround yourself with people who will make you better, and learn to listen.

I always try to look at kids like I'm in the locker room, and I'm a teammate.

I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There's definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it's tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.