Adam Oates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
-- Adam Oates

#Communication #Hypocrite #Player
I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
-- Adam Oates

#Team #Hockey #Play
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
-- Adam Oates

#Soccer #Growing Up #Father
Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
-- Adam Oates

#Needs #Superstar
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
-- Adam Oates

#Player #Littles #Assistants
I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
-- Adam Oates

#Thinking #Guy #Good Person
I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
-- Adam Oates

#Dad #Too Much #Remember
You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
-- Adam Oates

#Mom #Sleep #Play
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
-- Adam Oates

#School #Hockey #Years

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, weâ€™re embarrassed because thatâ€™s not the way we want to play soccer.
My music lives because of real players.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

Adam Oates famous quotes

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