Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
ADAM OATESOur family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
ADAM OATESI went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can’t say I really remember too much about it.
ADAM OATESAssistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATESI 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.
ADAM OATESHis idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews.
ADAM OATESI was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere.
ADAM OATESI 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 OATESYou eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in.
ADAM OATESI was a punk. I think that’s why I’m such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
ADAM OATESGrowing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player.
ADAM OATESI grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn’t even know it existed.
ADAM OATESI was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
ADAM OATESEven the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
ADAM OATESMy story is no different than anybody else’s.
ADAM OATES