Elana Meyers Quotes

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

I've always been a self-motivated guy for basketball.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

If there were some people who considered me a joke, I'm sorry about that. But I did not do it for any other reason except that I loved to ski jump, and I had hopes that by my doing it, other people in my country would take up the sport.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

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

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

I like to try to get around the younger generation to just encourage them. But I've always been afraid of coaching because I was always hard on myself as a player.

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

Obviously I love coaching. It's what I've done my whole life.

A lot of the kids gave a lot of positive feedback about if I ever became a coach, they would love to play in our program. And I was very confident that we would be able to get the top-tier players to come in.

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.

Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.

Whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens.

If people have seen me fight, I don't come in to get paid. I come in there to win.

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

I don't ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn't because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I want to continue to be a part of the sport, and not just as an owner in the Nascar Xfinity Series. I want to be a valuable asset to the growth of the sport and continue to help raise the bar and raise the awareness of the sport and promote the sport as much as I can.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.