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.
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I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.
As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.
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