Coaching Expectations Quotes

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

In my career playing football, nobody asked me to do as much as Bill Belichick did.

I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that's all we're measured upon.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.

You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

Being a coach's son, they're hard on you. When you say you want to be great, they do everything they can do to put you in that position.

The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.

When you have been coached by Ancelotti and other greats, it's hard to be coached by Domenech!

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

I think part of the reason some coaches don't want to be involved with social media is that they expect to be able to do it at a certain level. A lot of them are like, 'I'm not going to do it if we can't hit 100,000 or 200,000 followers.' Well, you're not going to right away.

When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot - maybe too much - in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.