Frances Tiafoe Quotes

I like making players better and smarter.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

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.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Jurgen Klopp is certainly a great coach. I think he has demonstrated at Dortmund that he can suit any team in the world.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.

When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

It takes years of practice to become a World No. 1 or 2.