Best Coaches Quotes

• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Volleyball

  Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.32, Hachette UK

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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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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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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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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Volleyball, Business, Inspirational Life

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Sorry, Leader

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• Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Mean

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• Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Sports, Inspiration

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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 have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  Pat Riley

  Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Mistake, Coaching

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• Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Leader, Healthy, Needs

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• Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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