I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
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.
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
I started out wanting to coach football.
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.