I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
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.
I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.