Kelvin Sampson Quotes

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

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

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.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

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.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

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

I just coach my team. I just focus on coaching my team.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I could have coached better.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

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.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

I think coaches really do matter because they see the game, and we just play the game from a different point of view, so they're able to give us a lot of tips and a lot of pointers, and I think coaches are really, really important.

Every coach talks to their players. Imagine not talking to Lionel Messi - that would be ridiculous.

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