Coaches Quotes - Page 23

• I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Nice

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

  Herman Edwards

  Inspirational, Leadership, Doe

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• After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season. I have been wrestling with the timing of announcing that decision. After seeing the outstanding attitude and work ethic of this team, I came to the conclusion that it's best to get the announcement out of the way now so we can focus on the season and avoid the repeated distractions that come from questions about my retirement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Attitude, Team

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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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• A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Motivation, Games

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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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• Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Team

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• Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Player, Mosquitoes

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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 wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Wise, Winning

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• My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

  Karch Kiraly

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

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• Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

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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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• 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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