Coaches Quotes - Page 14

• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

  Al McGuire

  Team, Personality, Arrogant

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• I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

  Bobby Knight

  Teacher

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• I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Genius, Damn

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1898, Triumph Books

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• My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

  Don Shula

  Philosophy, Player, Giving

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• Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Way

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

  Terry Fox

  Basketball, New York, Night

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  Player, People, Should

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• I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for it. A red-headed boy, who gobbles his buttered bread and toddles to his horse with the seat of his pants wet, this is the young man they hope will get me on my knees, full of prayer. This is the young man I hope will be able to help me, although with what and how I cannot think.

  Hannah Kent

  Horse, Prayer, Mistake

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Fans, Needs, Endless

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• A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Ifs

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• Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
  to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
  than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
  is being called 'Coach.'

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, People, Coaching

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Believe, Mean

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• In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Basketball, Team, Life Changing

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• Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

  Pat Conroy

  Sports, Boys, Secret

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.

  Kerri Walsh

  Believe, Long, Battle

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• One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

  Emil Zatopek

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

  Rick Pitino

  Jobs, Athlete, Bridges

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• I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

  Johnny Unitas

  Player, Want, Honest

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• I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dialect Coach, Voice, Mysterious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Art, Years

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• I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Integrity, Men, Boys

  Joe Ehrmann, Gregory Jordan (2011). “InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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