John Wooden Quotes

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

I have always enjoyed thinking about playing patterns and I will undoubtedly continue to do so in front of the TV but to become a coach, to be thorough in football at all times, to prepare matches and training... I cannot imagine that I would find pleasure there and pleasure is essential in football.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

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

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I think I have made it known that I definitely want to push my knowledge of pass rushing on to the younger players. Any shape, form or fashion that can be done, I am more than open to it.

It is not my domain to speak on pitches, but they play an important role in producing quality players in every format.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

Klopp is a great tactician and a great coach.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I've worked with some brilliant coaches, and I've taken a real interest in all the methods they use and the choices they make. And I can tell you that Moyes's sessions and the things he says in his team meetings are spot on.