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• It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

  Steve Largent

  Hard

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  Barry Sanders

  Organization, Wish, Lions

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• The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Player, Challenges

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• We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

  Chuck Grassley

  People, Parent, Drug

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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.

  Barry Levinson

  Laughing, United States, Actors

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Player, Years

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• 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.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Player, Hands

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• One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Character, Player

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• Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Games, Injury

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• Something has to happen that you can't coach.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Happens

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• I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

  Sergei Bubka

  Cost, Pay, Vaults

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  A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  Chuck Noll

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Frustration

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Loss

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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.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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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.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Interesting, Waiting

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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.

  Hayden Fry

  Football, Team, Marine

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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.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Art, History, Directors

  1956 In Newsweek,11 Jun.

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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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.

  Todd English

  Sports, Food, Cooking

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• What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

  George Halas

  Basketball, Football, Commitment

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• I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

  Reggie White

  Nfl, Tough, Toughness

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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.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Past, Police

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Believe, School, Kids

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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