Coaching Skills Quotes

I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

Jose Mourinho is a great coach. I would really like to work with him, and I once came close. He knows what weapons to use against teams, and he has won everything.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

I'm a good coach. I do the right things for my players, and I try to support them; I try to help them almost to a fault.

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

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the experience that I've got but there's so much more to it than that and I'd never take it for granted and just say I can jump into a new role and it will be easy and a breeze because I know it won't be like that.

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.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

Regarding Jose Mourinho, I hope I can learn a lot from him - he is a coach with a fantastic record.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

When Pep was at Barcelona, I was so young, 16 or 17 years old. I went to training a lot, and Pep Guardiola told me a lot of things, but I didn't stay in the first team. He is an amazing coach, and if he comes to the Premier League, I think he will win a lot of titles.

I'm a much better coach than I was six years ago.

Chuck Noll knew how he could help people. He was a teacher. He was a guy that was very good at selecting people, getting them to fit in. He wasn't the guy that was going to sit there and motivate you, intrinsically. That wasn't what he was best at. So he hired people that were good at that.

He went about things a certain way, but no one can say Thibs wasn't a good coach. He was a hell of a coach.