Coaches And Players Quotes - Page 2

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

Dean Smith

Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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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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Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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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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The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Eddie Reese

Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Billie Jean King

Motivational, Success, Sports

FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

John Wooden

Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Jim Valvano

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Sports, Journey

Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

Gregg Troy

Sports, Inspiration, Winning

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The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Knute Rockne

Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Herb Brooks

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Block

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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Pele

Motivational, Success, Soccer

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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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The mentality of coaches and players alike [in Bundesliga]. It's all about winning.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Winning, Player, Coaches

Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Bill McCartney

Teamwork, Player, Coaching

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