Jim Evans Quotes

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

I enjoy teaching football.

All the time I was in college, I was going to wrestling school on the weekends.

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

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

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

High school baseball is a passion of mine.

In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.