Coaches Quotes - Page 37

• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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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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• Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Study

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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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• Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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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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• I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Being Yourself, Philosophy

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• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

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• If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day...!

  James A. Murphy III

  Teacher, Thinking, Years

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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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• You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Kind

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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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• 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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• 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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• The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

  Bum Phillips

  Sports, Assumption, Trouble

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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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• I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Player, Practice

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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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