John Kessel Quotes About Coaches

Quotes about: Coaches

• Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Practice

• I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Art, Player

• Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

• The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Wise, Winning

• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

• The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Optimistic, Play

• Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Ears, Mouths

• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

• You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Kind

• Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Team

• Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Shapes, Bent

• No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

• A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

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