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.

When I work a game as an analyst all I do is look at the game like a coach.

If the players don't trust the coach it is a problem and vice versa.

So if the players trust the coach it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach it is a problem and vice versa.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time travel and workload.

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

You know a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as like a soccer coach or as a teacher.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach I would have been some form of a teacher.

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.

I want to thank my mum my daddy my coach my teacher everybody in my life.

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.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher and that's still what I do: teach.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

I want to thank all my fans teammates coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness his physical condition his technical ability and his mental strength.

I have three kids and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports so I'm around them a lot but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much other than giving them a place to live.

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.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports and especially relationships between players and coaches that people lose track lose a sense of reality.