Bela Karolyi Quotes

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

I love teaching the younger skaters.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

My dream is to help young players. I don't want them to make the mistakes I did in the past.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

I could have coached better.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.