Coaching Quotes - Page 11

• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Humor

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• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Choices, Remember

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• Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

  Katherine Paterson

  Trouble

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Football, Motivational Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You've never heard of them- and you never will .

  John Wooden

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Heard

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• What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

  Edward Carpenter

  Joy, Elements, Economy

  Edward Carpenter (1905). “Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals”

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• Nothing happens without personal transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Personal Transformation, Happens, Things Happen

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• It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Catalyst For Change, Analysis

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• The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Giving, Ego

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• I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

  Brendon Burchard

  Limiting Beliefs, Limitless, Not Interested

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• A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Boys, Fire

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• Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

  Vince Lombardi

  Basketball, Player, Important

  "What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership".

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• Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are better than they were in the past. I don't think coaching today's players is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.

  Avery Johnson

  Thinking, Past, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Teaching, Intelligent

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• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Team

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• As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Leader, Criticism

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• Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.76, Triumph Books

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• Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Giving

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• Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Strong, Optimistic

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• You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Supervision

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• Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teamwork, Nba

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• Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

  Joichi Ito

  People, Focus, Always Learning

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