Coaching Mindset Quotes

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

Every camp I do, I'm always trying to figure out how I can help kids get better, so holding the actual title of coach, that doesn't matter to me. In life, I'm a coach. I think we all are.

And when you're a coach your main concern is the players and the coaches. The last concern you have is really about yourself.

You must have a passion to coach.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

I try to see what the players can do and not what they can't do.

I've no doubt about the attitude of the players. Everything moves quickly in football; we coaches move on quickly from victory and defeat.