Coaching Knowledge Quotes

I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.

The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

Real Madrid needs a coach that knows the club and understands the values that it represents.

People think I don't have experience in the second division, but we were promoted with Tenerife and Extremadura, and I was the coach of the reserve team with Real Madrid in the second division. I know what it means to go from this level to another level. I realise how difficult it is.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.

I don't think Curcic is up to the task. I'd like to be more positive, but a coach who has not been in charge of a top team aiming for titles does not have the potential, the authority, or the knowledge to lead a national team to victories.