Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.
Adam Elliott
Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
Adam Oates
Coach Amodu has coached the cream of Nigerian football players and I had the privilege of working with him albeit for a very short time during the preparations for the two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt.
Alex Iwobi
My dad has been my coach since I was seven years old - from 7 to 18 is when he coached my club team - and so it was always in the family. He introduced me to soccer at a young age and also kind of molded me into a good player at a young age, too. Which then I grew to love the game and be as passionate as he was.
Ali Krieger
My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.
Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.
Allison Jones
I'd have considered myself fortunate to be coached by Guardiola because he really puts his stamp on teams. He builds them, moulds them, guides them, berates them, nurtures them. He makes them great. He takes them to a higher level; a place beyond mere football.
Andrea Pirlo
When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.
Andrew Luck
Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.
Andy Murray
I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
Ara Parseghian
The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.
My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
Aretha Franklin
Most players will tolerate their coach, just like the coach will tolerate that player to do what they got to do, but Steve Kerr is unique. Players want to play for Steve Kerr. Everyone who's played in this league, who's coached in this league, who's been a general manager understands exactly what I'm saying - he's one of them.
B. J. Armstrong
I think it's kind of silly, actually... I've been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn't ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don't - I think it's a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.
Becky Hammon
I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.
Ben Howland
I coached Brandin Knight at Pitt, who was unbelievable, and also Carl Krauser.
Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
Bill Belichick
I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.
Bill Cowher
When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.
God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
Bill Parcells
I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
I don't know Greg Schiano personally. But what I do know is Bill Belichick has vouched for him. OK? Urban Meyer has vouched for him. He's coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a professional organization. So many people have vouched for Greg Schiano. Now, all of a sudden, Tennessee is too holy that they don't want Greg Schiano?
I've been really fortunate to have coached in some moments that you can only dream about coaching in. The day after, you wake up and you try to do it again.
There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.
I coached five clubs in South Africa and I was successful with them.
I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
Being coached by Zidane? At the start it was a little difficult, I grew up watching him play. It's Zidane after all!
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
I always love being able to dance with athletes because they just know how to be coached.
Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.
I feel good about the four years I coached at St. John's. It's a special place to me. My kids go there. I met my wife there.
I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.
If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.
I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.
I get asked one question a lot: 'What celebrity encounter would render you starstruck?' The answer is simple - anyone who's ever strapped on a Redskins helmet, much less coached them to three Super Bowls.
I could have coached better.
My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn't be the player that I am today.
Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
You've got to know the defense by watching film and by how you've been coached. And then when you approach it, you've got to be real physical. You've got to deliver the blow, not let the blow be delivered to you.
I grew up an Urban Meyer fan. I loved the way he coached, loved the way he did things.
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
The year I left coaching to get married, Providence College decided to put its women's basketball games on radio, and because I had played and coached in the program, the athletic director asked if I'd like to give it a try.
I am mindful of the fact that I played women's college basketball, that I coached women's college basketball.
When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.
I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.
