Coaching Relationship Quotes

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

My father was my No.1 influence, long before him actually being involved with my youth team.

Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we're the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, 'I don't want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.'

I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

To coach with your brother at any level is really special.

I'm very fortunate to have a coach that I got to stay with all this time. Every year the bond gets stronger and better, and we understand each other more. And it's like she can tell if I walk into the gym what kind of mood I'm in, what she has to fix for the practice I need, or how I'm feeling.

I listen to the people that know the position. People that coach me. People that I always seek advice from.

As long as Will Muschamp is the head coach at the University of Florida, Urban Meyer will be a part of this program. He needs to be involved with this program for our players. He's a great sounding board for me and part of this great tradition.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

If you're not my coach, I don't know you. Don't say anything to me.

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.

I was thinking about finding a coach and I was able to find a coach and he was based out of Germany, and I had no problem going over there training if I know this is worth it and is going to make me better. The worst that could happen is I don't like it. I really, really enjoyed it and was able to get a lot better.

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

Once you lose connection with the coach, it gets difficult.

I will miss the association with the players and coaches. It has been a great ride.

The most important thing is the time you spend with the coach and what you all achieve.

I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.

With any coach, you have a lot of respect for him, but it is difficult to be their friend.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

For me, it's important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.