Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

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.

I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

When I travel, I make certain that I spend at least half of my time in the field. You have to get out to meet people that are in poverty, that are looking to improve their lives. That's something that you can't read in books.

I enjoy teaching football.

I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

My father didn't know about cricket. Then, one of my father's friend advised him to take me to a coaching camp.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

When it comes to working from home, when it comes to video conferencing, it's got to work. Anytime you want to meet someone, the quality has got to be good, very reliable. Otherwise, you've scheduled a very important meeting with a customer - oh my God, if the audio is choppy, the video doesn't work, you're not going to try it anymore.

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

The government should have something in place where, in school, they see what sport you are most suited for, and it should be mandatory that you do more of it in your curriculum.

I want to coach my boys and coach those boys that are 15 to 18 years old.