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“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”
Chuck Noll
“There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.”
John Madden
“It takes more that just a great coach or a great quarterback or a great anything. It takes the whole package. They still are a distance away from that.”
Marv Levy
“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”
Pat Riley
“A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.”
Lou Holtz
“I wanted to get it out of the way because there are a lot of important things we [coaches and players] need to do.”
Rudy Jaramillo
“I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.”
“My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going to be a good coach.”
