Coaches Quotes - Page 17

• If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teacher, Ifs

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• A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  Dick Motta

  Sports, Stars, Motivation

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• Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

  Harold Nicolson

  Sports, Art, Jobs

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• Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Shapes, Bent

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• Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Conservative, Common

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• A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Eye

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• Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

  Adolph Rupp

  Leadership, Sports, Differences

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• A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

  Leeman Bennett

  Leadership, Sports, Want

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• I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

  Janet Evans

  Leadership, Sports, Country

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• One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

  Chuck Knox

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich.

  Jerry West

  "Spurs Owner & Jerry West Shade Phil Jackson" by Spencer Lund, uproxx.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

  Phil Jackson

  Thinking, Coaching, Done

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• My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

  Usain Bolt

  Running, Records, Broke

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

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• I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.

  Nick Saban

  People, Dots, Opinion

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• Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

  Mike Singletary

  Opportunity, Men, Organization

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• I hold head coaches accountable.

  Roger Goodell

  Head Coaches

  "NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Explains The Saints' Severe Punishments" by Cork Gaines, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

  David Allen

  Teacher, Entrepreneur, Researchers

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• The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.

  Ben Utecht

  Humility, People, Consistency

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• I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

  Don Baylor

  Player, World, Situation

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• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, Age, Firsts

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  Dan Gable

  Mom, Dad, Wrestling

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• Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.

  Gus Malzahn

  Football, School, College

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• Football coaches don't have real problems.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Real, Problem

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