Coach Quotes

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. (Eugene McCarthy)
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. View quote
Clint Eastwood
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. View quote
Barack Obama
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
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. View quote
José Mourinho
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. View quote
Harry Mathews
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. View quote
Hayden Fry
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. View quote
Knute Rockne
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os. (Oscar Robertson)
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. View quote
John Adams
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. View quote
Tracey Ullman
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. View quote
John Donne
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. View quote
Colin Powell
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that. View quote
Larry Bird
I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for. View quote
Larry Bird
18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK." View quote
Joe Satriani
With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped inbronze. Each victory added another coat. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student-and not a good one-and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved. (John Irving)
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it; You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. View quote
Randy Pausch
Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver saidBut she never said a word never turned her headDon't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach todayBut she never said a word never turned her head. View quote
Peter Weiss
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. View quote
John Wooden
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. View quote
John Wooden