#coach

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#love #mary-stewart #nine-coaches-waiting #dreams

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #humor #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-heroes-of-olympus

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life. ↗

— Martin Dugard

#inspirational #life #runner #inspirational

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #coach #i #knew #learning

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works. ↗

— Linford Christie

#coach #establishment #i #i am #outside

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.' ↗

— Randy Moss

#coach #england #guys #how #i

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#amount #basketball #coach #college #derived

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#british #clifford #coach #eventually #fantastic

I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#because #best #big #big fan #bruce

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#balls #being #coach #describe #event