Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.
Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.
I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich.
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.
Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.
A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.
I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
