You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
The coach is first of all a teacher.
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.
My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.
The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.
My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.
If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
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.
Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.