Bobby Bowden Quotes

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.

I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

My first thing with every club I have worked in is to get a personal relationship with the players and then build a professional one.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

Like Koeman, Klopp knows exactly how to get the best out of me - by being critical. When the media are hyping me and being very positive, he will downplay the praise and all that - often with a wink.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

Harry Redknapp is a fantastic manager. He knows how to talk to players. You need that belief from your own manager. He tells you just to go out there and do your thing. That is what Harry has got more than anyone else.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

People talk about the hair dryer and all this with Sir Alex Ferguson. What was really great about him, whatever happened in a game, he would spend whatever minutes it took him to get this out of this system and say whatever needed to be said. Once he said, 'Get your bath,' that was it. We knew that it would never return.

Chuck Noll knew how he could help people. He was a teacher. He was a guy that was very good at selecting people, getting them to fit in. He wasn't the guy that was going to sit there and motivate you, intrinsically. That wasn't what he was best at. So he hired people that were good at that.