Paul Pierce Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I am there for the athletes I coach.

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.

I enjoy coaching.

I'm really proud of my coaches and the people I have training with me.

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

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.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

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

It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.

I loved coaching.

Triple H and all the coaches have been very helpful and supportive of everything that I have done.

Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

With one coach, you have a lot of confidence, and you play well. Then you go with another coach, and your confidence is zero. Football is this.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

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

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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.

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 kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.