To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition. I’m also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg’s name is very special.
Dwane Casey
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
Pete Carroll
I was at Leeds Carnegie, the ninth tier. And I was coaching students. There would have been hundreds of managers with more experience. So I had to go to the fourth tier of Swedish football, pretty much in the Arctic circle.
Graham Potter
Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
Bill McCartney
In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
John Wooden
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
Danny Meyer
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
Phil Jackson
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Phil Crosby
People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
Tony Dungy
The key to coaching is love. It’s not knowledge; it’s not discipline. If you love ’em, you can discipline them. If you love ’em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.
Dabo Swinney
To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.
Stephen Curry
That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you’ve done something for someone who will never pay you back.
Morgan Wootten
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
Coaching’s not a job, it’s a privilege.
Lee Corso
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I’ve done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
I obtained my first job with the Eagles through a series of internships that began during my junior year of college. From there, after obtaining the job, it was a combination of hard work and perseverance and showing them the type of person that I was that helped me climb the coaching ladder.
Sean McDermott
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school – no way. And I had no idea I’d be coaching girls. It’s wild.
Liang Chow
But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
Reese Witherspoon
It’s part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.
Mike Budenholzer
Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It’s the greatest strength I’ve had. It’s helped me get through the hard times. You’re not going to win every one of your football games. I’ve always said I’m not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
Bobby Bowden
There’s good times and bad times. That’s part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it’s about not only winning games, it’s about developing men.
Herm Edwards
There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don’t need a huge amount of coaching, but that’s when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
Brian O’Driscoll
I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
Marv Levy
Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
Pat Burns
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching.
Jeff Van Gundy
Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
Tom Landry
I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
Anne Donovan
If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn’t recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Bear Bryant
I’ve got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.
Frank Vogel
You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.
Jayson Tatum
Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.
Mike Leach
The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
Scotty Bowman
I don’t think I’ve ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.
Chael Sonnen
People think that coaching is about winning football matches – which, of course, it is – but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.
Graham Potter
My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn’t want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.
Archie Manning
Thirty per cent of coaching is tactics, 70% social competence.
Julian Nagelsmann
I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!
Dan Pena
A lot of coaches could ration out their time. They could delegate. They would make time for their family. But when I was coaching I would almost laugh at those guys. I knew we were working the extra hours to get an edge on them.
Jimmy Johnson
When I don’t have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It’s a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That’s why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.
Johan Cruyff
It never stops. It’s 365 recruiting. That cell phone you’ve got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.
Kirby Smart
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.
Roy Clark
The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.
Ara Parseghian
When I first moved out to L.A. to be an actor, this family knew that I was a pretty big athlete back in Texas, and they said, ‘You can live in our house for free if you coach our kid in football, basketball, and lacrosse.’ So I was coaching all these sports teams, and I got to live at this house in Bel Air – this nine-acre estate – for free.
Glen Powell
I look at the England job. It’s not always about being the greatest coach. You’ve got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.
Steve Bruce
I’d be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn’t enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I’m sure I would have never left.
John Wooden
I was with All Pro Dad, and I was coaching. People recognized me as a coach. They might see my face and say, ‘What’s going on there, is that something with the Colts or the Buccaneers?’ Then they realize, ‘This is something with my kids; let me explore.’ So I think that helped, that name recognition.
Tony Dungy
I’ve had some of the best years of my career at Atletico and remember the supporters, my teammates, and the coaching staff fondly.
Filipe Luis
It was important to be with a coaching staff that didn’t just believe in my football ability.
Will Grier
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Steve Waugh
The essence of my coaching is to serve.
Monty Williams
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing.
Phil Jackson
Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I’m in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I’ll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
Peter Facinelli
I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I’m going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, ‘There is a coaching legend.’
Marv Levy
I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.
Frank Vogel
During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph’s won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments – including seven NCAA appearances – and reached the Final Four in 1961.
Jack Ramsay
The one thing that saved me is that in 17 years of coaching I never had an NCAA investigator talk to one of my players. I lost games, but I lost the right way.
Lee Corso
When I was coaching at Kentucky – I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing – we had Japan’s national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.
Dwane Casey
It is time for everyone to sit down – the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity – and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
Dick Vitale
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Mark Spitz
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It’s like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Pat Williams
My mom does skin coaching — she’ll look at your skin and come up with a plan to improve it or to keep it the way it is — at Huidinstituut de Orchidee.
NikkieTutorials
I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It’s just kind of the nature of the business, so I’ve never really focused on that. I’m just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.
Brad Stevens
I did what I always wanted to do. Wrestling. – conquered that. Can’t physically do it anymore. So now what? Maybe I’ll paint. Maybe I’ll write another book. Yeah, I’ll try this acting thing and now actually concentrate on it and try and get better at it and take classes and get coaching and give it a shot.
Edge
I guess I’m going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn’t be coaching.
Charles Oakley
I learned this about coaching: You don’t have to explain victory and you can’t explain defeat.
Darrell Royal
Women face discrimination in sport the world over. The reason we don’t have more Serena Williams is because we don’t really have the same facilities and coaching for women that we do for men.
Momina Mustehsan
It’s that way all the way down the line. I’ve got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
Bruce Sutter
The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player’s responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.
Jonathan Agnew
Coaching is not easy.
Clarence Seedorf
Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
Lou Holtz
True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I’ve not lost sight of that.
Sean Dyche
I’m happy with the confidence that Tite has shown me. He and his coaching staff have been doing a great job. My relationship with him is the best I can hope for and I always say that he cares about all the players equally, giving the same level of attention to first-team players and reserves.
Willian
I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
Dusty Rhodes
Coaching the national team would be great.
Luis Enrique
Coaching changes are a part of football; they arrive ready to meet the goals they have been set, so you respect them and work with them like any other.
Edinson Cavani
I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.
Kaka
Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.
Chauncey Billups
I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching – 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.
Fabio Cannavaro
When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.
Hank Stram
When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics.
Tyron Woodley
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
John Wooden
People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
Tom Landry
I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?
Johan Cruyff
If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.
Darrell Royal
Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
Marv Levy
Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.
Frank de Boer
I remember doing my first coaching sessions at Macclesfield, when I was still playing, and I was just terrible. I felt really uncomfortable standing in front of people, and it felt very odd. It was not something I was naturally comfortable with at all.
Graham Potter
I’m not going to coach again. I’ve done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
Phil Jackson
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
And, coaching has never been an option for me.
Franco Harris
First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.
Jordan Rodgers
The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.
Tony Dungy
I’ve been really fortunate to have coached in some moments that you can only dream about coaching in. The day after, you wake up and you try to do it again.
Brad Stevens
I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.
Peter Jones
Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It’s not the norm in Italy.
Roberto Baggio
I would like to be coaching in the right situation if it’s a team effort and doesn’t have a bunch of mini-agendas. I want something where the school wants to win and values graduation and everybody wants to work together.
Mike Leach
I’ve always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.
Sean McDermott
If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They’re not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It’s like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.
Bud Grant
I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.
Jerry Jones
People ask me do I want to do my coaching badges. Why? You’re not given a chance, so no. I wouldn’t be looking forward to doing my coaching badges. It’s a waste of time.
Danny Rose
My teammates and the coaching team know that they can count on me.
Casemiro
I’m so blessed to have gone to Wisconsin. It’s a great school and great coaching staff with incredible fans. I had a lot of great teammates that wanted to be successful. I played behind a huge offensive line. I think that proved a lot, too, as a 5-11 quarterback showing I could play under center with those guys in front of me.
Russell Wilson
For me, I think you can coach guys in martial artsm, and wrestling can be one aspect of it, but I have no desire to be an NCAA wrestling coach again. It was one of the worst coaching jobs I have ever had.
Tyron Woodley
If our players start to see coaching as a dead end, where is the next Ferguson, the next Clough or Shankly? It’s sad. How will players see a pathway, how are they going to see a future if even the England job goes abroad?
Steve Bruce
I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.
Morgan Wootten
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
Darrell Royal
I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.
Herm Edwards
That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn’t good, I might have made a career change.
Steve Alford
I’ve got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me – it was a real masterclass – on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.
Finty Williams
The challenge of coaching a national side like England would be something different. The job is not about coaching every day.
Fabio Capello
Coaching Barca involved dedicating all your energy to the team, the club, and the players. And when you see the end is coming, you have to take it in, accept it, and communicate it. There’s nothing else you can do.
Luis Enrique
With the 24-second clock, they throw up the shot so fast you don’t see plays worked very often. With the extra six seconds, you can regroup after a missed shot and work another play. It would put more coaching in the game.
George Mikan
When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.
Antonio Conte
My dad had a spell when he came out of coaching doing some work with underprivileged children on quite a rough council estate in Southampton to help the kids and take them out to places. I used to go along with him. I used to play football with them, mess about with them. I was only 13 or 14 and became good friends with them.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
I have been at Arsenal Football Club for seven years now, and I have always shown my full respect to the Club, Arsene Wenger, all the coaching staff, my team-mates, and the fans. I’ve always felt that I received great support from the manager and the fans, and I am fully focused on getting back to my best.
Wojciech Szczesny
I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It’s an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I’m not interested in coaching international sides. I don’t mind short-term coaching. I don’t want to get involved in the politics of teams.
Glenn Turner
I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That’s kind of embarrassing when you think about it.
Lee Corso
For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.
Sean McDermott
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
Brendon Burchard
Playing football is one thing, but coaching is another.
Gianfranco Zola
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
Roger Federer
Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.
Edgar Davids
Coaching courses are still much too theoretical, and this is what you see reflected in the basic technical skills of the average player. I even see things deteriorating.
Johan Cruyff
Coaching in England was a positive experience but also many negative things happened.
Andre Villas-Boas
I am thinking about doing my coaching badges and seeing if I enjoy that, because I do miss the game.
Wayne Bridge
Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.
Elaine MacDonald
I’ve done my coaching badges, I’ve got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I’m doing now. I’m also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales – and I’m lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
Ian Rush
My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.
Jill Ellis
I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, ‘Go home and coach basketball.’
Pat Summitt