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My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.
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Robin Yount
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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John Wooden
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My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
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Eric Williams
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You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
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Brian Williams
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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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Bob Uecker
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Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
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Michael Thomas
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That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.
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John Starks
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All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
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Steve Spurrier
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But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
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Steve Spurrier
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I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.
Author:
Steve Spurrier
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So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
Author:
Steve Spurrier
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There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.
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Mark Spitz
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I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Author:
Don Shula
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I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
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Andrew Shue
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And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.
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Nolan Ryan
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But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
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Geoffrey Rush
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But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
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Pete Rozelle
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I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
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Darrell Royal
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For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Author:
Darrell Royal
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You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
Author:
Darrell Royal
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The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
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Knute Rockne
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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Knute Rockne
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That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.
Author:
Bryan Robson
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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Oscar Robertson
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Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.
Author:
Robin Roberts
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Pat Riley
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I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Author:
Victoria Pratt
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A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
Author:
Andy Pick
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The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.
Author:
Charles Perrault
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When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.
Author:
Tom Osborne
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Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
Author:
Bobby Orr
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The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
Author:
Merlin Olsen
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Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
Author:
Merlin Olsen
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
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Don Nelson
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
Author:
Parminder Nagra
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I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.
Author:
Dannii Minogue
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Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
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Mark Messier
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I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Author:
Tim McGraw
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Author:
Eugene McCarthy
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It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.
Author:
Brian McBride
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My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
Author:
Harry Mathews
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It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.
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Pete Maravich
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I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
Author:
Michael Mann
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But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
Author:
Lee Majors
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I started out wanting to coach football.
Author:
Lee Majors
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
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John Madden
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Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
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Kristanna Loken
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Author:
Jet Li
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That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
Author:
Jamal Lewis
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Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
Author:
Barry Levinson
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There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
Author:
Steve Largent
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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Karolina Kurkova
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I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
Author:
Olga Korbut
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
Author:
Bobby Knight
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In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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Billie King
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But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
Author:
Nancy Kerrigan
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The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
Author:
Craig Johnston
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I have no desire to coach basketball.
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Kevin Johnson
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The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
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Jimmy Johnson
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I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.
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Ron Jaworski
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We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.
Author:
Ron Jaworski
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Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.
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Bobby Hull
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Author:
Lou Holtz
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
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Martin Henderson
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I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.
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Daniela Hantuchova
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My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
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Dorothy Hamill
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I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
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Dante Hall
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We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.
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Rupert Grint
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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Wayne Gretzky
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So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
Author:
Kevin Garnett
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I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.
Author:
Kevin Garnett
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How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Author:
Hayden Fry
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I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
Author:
Hayden Fry
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My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
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David Friedman
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I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.
Author:
Guy Forget
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I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Author:
Todd English
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I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
Author:
Todd English
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Ralph Emerson
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I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
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Bernie Ebbers
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My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.
Author:
Eric Dickerson
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
Author:
Dan Devine
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
Author:
Lynn Davies
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If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
Author:
Lynn Davies
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You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
Author:
Lynn Davies
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
Author:
Hansie Cronje
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But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
Author:
Bob Cousy
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If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
Author:
James Collins
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I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.
Author:
Sasha Cohen
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My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
Author:
Sasha Cohen
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Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really.
Author:
Tyler Christopher
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I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
Author:
Linford Christie
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I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
Author:
Linford Christie
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I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
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Eric Cantona
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Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
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Tim Buckley
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The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
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Sergei Bubka
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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
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Paul Bryant
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!
Author:
Tony Brown
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I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.
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Larry Brown
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The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.
Author:
Scott Brooks
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Author:
Bobby Bowden
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I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
Author:
Anatoli Boukreev
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People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
Author:
Anatoli Boukreev
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This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
Author:
Anatoli Boukreev
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
Author:
Barry Bonds
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
Author:
Barry Bonds
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I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
Author:
Dennis Bergkamp
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There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Author:
Peter Berg
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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
Author:
Boris Becker
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Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.
Author:
Dusty Baker
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Author:
Oksana Baiul
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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Aaliyah
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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Aaliyah
