Bethanie Mattek-Sands Quotes

Sports is my passion.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.

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

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

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.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Athletes are very cool to me.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.