Bear Bryant Quotes

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

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

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

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

There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

I am the coach, all I do is train the players who are put at my disposal.

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

When you change team, and you have the right mindset and a coach who respects you, everything becomes easier.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.