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Nobody thought I would be a great coach. -- Rick Majerus
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. -- Don Meyer
A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life. -- Michael Josephson
A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more. -- Andre Agassi
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now. -- Andrew Luck
Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it. -- Thomas G. Bandy
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. -- Chuck Daly
You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams -- Tom Thibodeau
Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town. -- Rick Majerus
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. -- Oscar Robertson
Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect. -- Gordie Gillespie
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. -- John Roderick
In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown. -- Allen Iverson
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership. -- Thomas G. Bandy
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy. -- Tyson Chandler
Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane. -- Donald Trump
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value. -- Nathaniel Branden
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels -- Anson Dorrance
Hed been to the playoffs before. I was asked last week what I thought this season has felt like for Coach Gibbs. I would think it must seem very familiar to a man with all those playoff wins. Hes a great coach who understands how to get his team to play. -- Mark Brunell
Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches. -- Alex Ferguson
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. -- Grant Teaff
The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner. -- Rocky Bridges
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. -- Dorothy Hamill
If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour. -- Gary Speed
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence. -- Sasha Cohen
I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach. -- Zach Johnson
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. -- Bud Grant
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. -- Bill Belichick
Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around. -- Larry Robinson
It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off. -- Bob Kersee
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend. -- Jose Contreras
A good Coach asks great questions to help you remove the obstacles in your mind and to get you back on track in life -- Farshad Asl
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. -- Tom Heinsohn
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. -- Jennie Finch
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different. -- Steve Alford
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