Inspirational Coaching Quotes - Page 2

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Practice, Nba

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Lewis Carroll

Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

George Allen

Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

Watts Humphrey

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Volleyball, Team

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There is no such thing as life in-between.

Pat Riley

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Al McGuire

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Bill Walton

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

Red Auerbach

Basketball, Sports, Boss

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The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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If you think you can't, you're right.

Carol Bartz

Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Inspirational, Funny, Success

"Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

John Madden

Success, Sports, Teamwork

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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Knute Rockne

Motivational, Responsibility, Player

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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Jim Valvano

Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Samuel Beckett

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Dean Smith

Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

W. H. Murray

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Basketball, Running, Yesterday

Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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