Lynn Davies Quotes

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

Thanks to Coach Bennett for a great education in basketball and for making me better.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

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

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

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.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

Definitely had a lot of training since a young age. My teachers in high school have always helped me, gave me encouragement, taught me so much.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

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

Playing every day with important players is good for a young player: you are always learning from experienced players.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

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.

Triple H and all the coaches have been very helpful and supportive of everything that I have done.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.

I've played for some really good coaches, been on some really good teams. I learned a lot.