Coaches Quotes - Page 35

• Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Adversity, Guy

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• (Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Running, Taken

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• Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

  Jim Valvano

  Attitude, Team, Pessimistic

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• I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

  Dante Hall

  Genuine

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• If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

  John Madden

  Games, Video, Remember

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• A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.

  Robert Zuppke

  Responsible, Irresponsible

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• A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

  Michael Jordan

  Greatness, Limits, Guides

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• I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Jobs, Who I Am

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• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

  Al McGuire

  Team, Personality, Arrogant

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• I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

  Bobby Knight

  Teacher

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• I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Genius, Damn

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1898, Triumph Books

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• My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

  Don Shula

  Philosophy, Player, Giving

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• Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Way

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

  Terry Fox

  Basketball, New York, Night

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  Player, People, Should

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• I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for it. A red-headed boy, who gobbles his buttered bread and toddles to his horse with the seat of his pants wet, this is the young man they hope will get me on my knees, full of prayer. This is the young man I hope will be able to help me, although with what and how I cannot think.

  Hannah Kent

  Horse, Prayer, Mistake

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

  Abe Lemons

  Leadership, Sports, Drink

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• I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Fans, Needs, Endless

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• 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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• Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
  to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
  than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
  is being called 'Coach.'

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, People, Coaching

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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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