His painstaking method of coaching is unusual, according to the soprano Gail Robinson, the associate director of the Met's Young Artist Development Program, who worked with him when she joined the company, in the 1960's.
One man who knows about this painstaking process is Harlequins' coach, Brian McDermott.
At the Open, the actors attempt to strike a balance between a quirky night schedule and rigid health routines, while their coaches worry about the painstaking details of those exercise and nutrition regimens.
For the moment, King has a dual plan of attack; his ambassadorial role at Spurs and the painstaking steps through the various stages of coaching qualification.
It was all in marked contrast to the champions' warm-up drills, overseen with painstaking care by a promising young assistant coach called Jonny Wilkinson.
Geelong coach Chris Scott has gone to painstaking lengths this year to repeatedly assure the footy world that he's not interested in what the triple-premiership Cats team used to be, but rather what the next great Cats side will look like.
Sir Clive Woodward, England coach, had been planning for that winning moment in painstaking rigorous and determinedly non-British detail for the previous six years.
From such comments of old teammates, coaches, a friend and neighbors emerges the picture of a withdrawn youth, determined and painstaking, who went off to the Marine Corps and returned, still reclusive but imbued with a militaristic fervor, to wander the streets, peeking into homes and staring so strangely that children taunted him with the nickname Crazy Pat.
He sees himself as a coach, not a manager, and the players will have to get used to a painstaking approach that involves drill after drill.
"Diplomacy is painstaking work.
But progress is painstaking.
