David Friedman Quotes

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

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

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

The coach is first of all a teacher.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

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.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

I've been coaching how many years? A long time.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

I teach.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.