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Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.