Coaching famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
-- Adolph Rupp -
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
-- Adolph Rupp -
The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
-- Allen Newell -
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
-- Alvin Toffler -
To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.
-- Andy Stanley -
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
-- Andy Stanley -
A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
-- Andy Stanley -
You can never be fit enough for this game.
-- Anson Dorrance -
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.
-- Anupam Kher -
Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.
-- Ashot Nadanian -
Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.
-- Atul Gawande -
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
-- Bear Bryant -
When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
-- Bear Bryant -
All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.
-- Bear Bryant -
A successful coach is one who is still coaching.
-- Ben Schwartzwalder -
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.
-- Bill Cowher -
There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.
-- Bill Laimbeer -
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
-- Bill McCartney -
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
-- Bill Parcells -
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
-- Bill Parcells -
People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.
-- Bill Toomey -
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
-- Bill Walsh -
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
-- Bill Walsh -
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
-- Bill Walsh -
False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.
-- Billy Donovan -
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
-- Bob Cousy -
Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.
-- Bob Harper -
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
-- Bobby Knight -
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
-- Bobby Knight -
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
-- Bobby Knight -
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
-- Bobby Knight -
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
-- Bobby Knight -
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
-- Bobby Knight -
You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.
-- Brad Gilbert -
Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
-- Brad Gilbert -
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,
-- Brian Clough -
If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.
-- Bud Grant -
Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.
-- Bud Wilkinson -
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
-- Bum Phillips -
For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time
-- Chip Kelly -
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
-- Chris Lytle -
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
-- Chuck Daly -
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.
-- Chuck Noll -
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.
-- Curt Flood -
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
-- Curt Flood -
I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.
-- D. Wayne Calloway -
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
-- Dallas Willard -
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
-- Darrell Royal -
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
-- Darrell Royal -
Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.
-- David Cottrell -
It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.
-- Delbert McClinton -
We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
-- Dick Bennett -
What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.
-- Dick Bennett -
For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.
-- Dick Bennett -
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
-- Dick Motta -
I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.
-- Don Cooper -
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
-- Don Meyer -
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
-- Don Meyer -
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
-- Don Meyer -
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
-- Don Meyer -
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
-- Don Meyer -
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
-- Don Meyer -
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
-- Don Meyer -
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
-- Don Meyer -
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
-- Don Meyer -
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
-- Don Meyer -
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
-- Don Meyer -
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
-- Don Meyer -
You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
-- Don Nelson -
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.
-- Edward Carpenter -
We cannot transform what we refuse to engage
-- Elizabeth Kucinich -
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
-- Eric Hoffer -
And, coaching has never been an option for me.
-- Franco Harris -
When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned.
-- Frank Layden -
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
-- Frosty Westering -
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
-- George Halas -
I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.
-- Gordon Taylor -
I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.
-- Graham Roberts -
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-- Harold H. Bloomfield -
We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
-- Hayden Fry
