Matt Nagy Quotes

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

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.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

Pep is the best manager in the world. He's always looking to help me get better and improve my game.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

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.

And some of the best coaching you can do is not telling kids something.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

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.