Coaches are teachers. Some coaches — lesser coaches — try telling you things. Good coaches, however, teach you how to think and arm you with the fundamental tools necessary to execute properly. Simply put, good coaches make sure you know how to use both hands, how to make proper reads, how to understand the game. Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them. That’s the same at every level.

A good coach does not worry about letting you grow up right in front of them. Because a good coach knows you will. That's what a coach does; They get you ready and then they let you go.

A coach sees your potential and helps you become a better version of yourself.

A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. — Jack Canfield and Peter Chee

A coach’s primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

Simply put, good coaches make sure you know how to use both hands, how to make proper reads, how to understand the game. Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them. That’s the same at every level.

A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.

A boss might give instructions and bark orders, a consultant would analyze data and give advice, but a coach would use curiosity to ask, listen and draw out the best from people.

Sometimes coaches can teach you new information, new strategies and skills;

Good coaches, however, teach you how to think and arm you with the fundamental tools necessary to execute properly.

Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them.

They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them it is so, but you show them the reasons why it is so and you repeat and repeat until they are convinced, until they know.

I’ve met with many coaches and they ask me: “What happened to the coachable athletes? Where did they go?” Many of the coaches lament that when they give their athletes corrective feedback, the athletes grumble that their confidence is being undermined. Sometimes the athletes phone home and complain to their parents. They seem to want coaches who will simply tell them how talented they are and leave it at that. The coaches say that in the old days after a little league game or a kiddie soccer game, parents used to review and analyze the game on the way home and give helpful (process) tips. Now on the ride home, they say, parents heap blame on the coaches and referees for the child’s poor performance or the team’s loss. They don’t want to harm the child’s confidence by putting the blame on the child.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.