It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.
I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.
You want your coach's blessing.
Louis van Gaal is one of the most incredible coaches who's done a fantastic job in clubs all over Europe.
The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.
Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things (about them) are better than they were in the past. I don't think (coaching today's players) is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.
The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.
I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach.
I think players changing coaches is normal.
He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.
You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.
I was blown away when I figured out that none of the great integrative moves that I studied came as a result of starting with a blank sheet of paper - as many innovation coaches suggest. Integrative solutions came directly from mining the existing models for the best of their nuggets. So I never start with a blank sheet of paper anymore.
Even Spartacus needs a coach.
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?
I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.
He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there said to me in a thick Bok accent 'You see, Richard, what we have to put up with?'