Athletic Coaching Quotes

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

The players do their thing on the pitch, and there's a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.

My main influence was my father. He was a great high school coach. I thought one day, if I got lucky, I could be a head high school coach.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

I couldn't sign for Barca, as I can't play football the way Xavi wants.

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.

Look, I loved working in baseball.

You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

Whatever the coaches want to call and are comfortable with me me running, I'm always down.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru." As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.

What would I have studied at university? Football!

I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father's elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in me, so he pushed me, and then another uncle - father of Kamran, Umar, and Adnan Akmal - advised my father to work hard on me, as he thought that I will make it big in cricket.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.