Quotes and Sayings About Coaching
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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 -
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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 -
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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 NadanianSource : Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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