Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.
source: Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books
topic: Basketball, Coaching, Pressure, Top Management, Man In The Moon

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports


Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
topic: Teamwork, Pressure, Feels, Great Coach, Great Coaching
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
source: President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Striving For Perfection, Inspirational Football Coach
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Sports Coach, Motivational Basketball
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
topic: Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Good Sportsmanship, Motivational Basketball
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork, Inspirational Football, Best Coaches
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
topic: Motivational, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Sales
source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech
The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
topic: Motivational, Success, Failure, Sense Of Accomplishment, Rising Again
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Coaches, Just Give Up
If you think you can't, you're right.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
topic: Dance, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coaching
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
topic: People, Decision, Making Decisions, Basketball Leadership, Famous Coach
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
topic: Success, Teamwork, Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Coaching
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
topic: Inspirational, Success, Softball, Sports Football, Motivational Coaching
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
source: Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963
topic: Sports, Football, Contact, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coach
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech
What's tough is being good every day.
topic: Inspirational, Sports, Tough, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Failure, Inspirational Coaching, Sports Coach
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Journey To Success
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
source: Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
topic: Teamwork, Careers, Way, Inspirational Coach, Sports Coach
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
topic: Motivational, Sports, Teamwork, Inspirational Coaching, Sports Coach
source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches
source: John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional
topic: Inspirational, Success, Integrity, Good Character, Best Coaches
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Inspirational Coach, Striving For Perfection
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching
source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Sports Coach, Great Coach
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
topic: Sarcastic, Sports, Football, Running Out Of Time, Inspirational Football Coach
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Commitment
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coach
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation