Coaches Quotes - Page 33

• I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.

  George H. W. Bush

  Eye, Games, Play

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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• I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, School

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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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• God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

  Heywood Broun

  God, Football, Sides

  Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”

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• The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.147, Penguin

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• Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

  John Towner Williams

  Teacher, Athlete, School

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• Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

  John Madden

  Football, Player, Nfl

  John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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• Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

  Robin Roberts

  Beautiful, Years, League

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• In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

  Danny McBride

  Soccer, Football, Teacher

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

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• You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

  Danny McBride

  Soccer, Teacher, Character

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

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• As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

  John Madden

  Family, Jobs, Memories

  John Madden's Enshrinement Speech, www.profootballhof.com. August 5, 2006.

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• Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

  Chris Carter

  Games, Opponents, Respect Yourself

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• I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.

  James Wright

  Team, Said, Best Team

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• The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

  Seth

  Real, Mind, Want

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

  Doug Collins

  Growing Up, Player, Today

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• Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

  Abe Lemons

  Summer, Winter, Guy

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• I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.

  Nigel Short

  Hard Work, Coaching, Degrees

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• Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind, genuine and honest, willing and able to see where her clients get stuck and gently help them recover their freedom. Better than a coach who gives you the answers, Dawn will help you find the answers to your life's dilemmas that are already within you.

  Martha Beck

  Giving, Ugly, Able

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• The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

  Sergei Bubka

  World, Strategy, All The Best

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• Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Pain, Trying

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• Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, Men

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• Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Games

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