Coaches Motivational Quotes

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Basketball, Football

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Ara Parseghian

Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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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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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

Sarcastic, Sports, Football

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It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Men, Nba

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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Life, Confidence, Fear

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

Paul McAllister

School, College, Coaching

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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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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

Sports, Loyalty, Running

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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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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Sports, Lying

"Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievememnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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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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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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Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

John Wooden

Motivational, Basketball, Ucla

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Confidence, Fear, Light

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Tom Landry

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

George Allen

Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

George Allen (1990). “Strategies for winning: a top coach's game plan for victory in football and in life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

Lewis Carroll

Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Jim Jarmusch

Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

"His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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