When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team
Coaches win practices, players win games
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence
Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable
Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.
When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.
If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.
Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.
When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.
Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.
It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.
I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'
There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
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