Sports Instruction Quotes

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.

I've been coaching how many years? A long time.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

He told me just to keep the ball low.

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.