Allison Jones Quotes

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

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'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

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.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

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.