As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.
Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
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.
I enjoyed my time on the Biggest Loser ranch. Although I will not be returning as a full-time trainer on season 13, I will always be a part of 'The Biggest Loser' family and my commitment to bettering lives through health and fitness will continue.
To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.
My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.
Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.
The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.
Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.
Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
You have the power to help people become winners.
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
