Coaches Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Late in the third quarter the Cougars were behind 12-0. Duva had completed 5 out of 20 passes. Edwards looked at Gifford Nielsen. Giff had never done a thing, in practice or anywhere else, to give us confidence in him. . . . . . . the coach said later. He sent him into the game anyway. First play was a 19-yard completion. Second was a 6-yard run. He threw again on the third play to running back Dave Lowry who ran 37 yards for a touchdown.

  LaVell Edwards

  Running, Practice, Games

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• It's cool. You can laugh about it, but at the same time you can't really get caught up in it because you're here for a job and it's to win football games. Being on this team, being with the head coach here and the quarterback we have keeps you humble. It keeps you hard working. You can laugh and giggle about stuff, but then at the same time you've got to make sure you're prepared and practicing hard still.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Football, Jobs, Team

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• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Winning, Differences

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

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• For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Careers, Defense, Firsts

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• It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.

  Brendan

  Player, Yards, Boxes

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• Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

  Mark R. Woodward

  Soccer, Cat, Trying

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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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• Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

  Herman Edwards

  Inspirational, Leadership, Doe

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic."

  John Eliot

  Success, Wind, People

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

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• Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Practice

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• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

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• Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Ears, Mouths

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• One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Eye, Player

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• No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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