Successful Coaching Quotes

You look at Matt LaFleur and where he's been. It seems like successful quarterback play follows him.

All really successful coaches have a system.

I'm a person who believes that if a team that's producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they're really creating a dynasty, so that's the way I take it.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.

The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.

What Guardiola has done as coach of Barcelona is really spectacular.

Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

Everyone knows that I had a lot of good coaches but one person was very important: Jupp Heynckes.

I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

Managers lose more than they win until they get to the big 10 clubs; then, they start winning a bit more than they lose.

I had some very good players and some wonderful young players hitting the scene. Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Michael Owen - we had something tangible to work with and move forward.

In any national team, the young players who have quality and the right mentality will stand out. And that's how it should be.

I am hugely grateful to Mourinho. He is the coach who gave me my opportunity with Real Madrid, and I wish him lots of luck.

Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.