Coaches Quotes - Page 18

• 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 have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

  Ronnie Wood

  Nice, Guy, Each Day

  "Wood and it be good" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.

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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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• I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, Mean, College

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• I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, Player, College

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• Football coaches don't have real problems.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Real, Problem

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• I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

  Lou Holtz

  Desire, Want, Feels

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, People, Risk

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• Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

  Durwood Merrill

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

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• I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

  Luis Tiant

  College, Long, Pitching

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• Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

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• Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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• Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, Coaching

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• Coaches win practices, players win games

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Persistence, Nba

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• Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

  Woody Hayes

  Player, Fire, Long

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• Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Independent, Differences

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