Anne Donovan Quotes

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

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

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

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.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

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.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

As the captain of the team, my job involves more than just playing. I have to talk to the players and motivate them.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.