Coaching Quotes - Page 18

• If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

  Charles Haley

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

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• In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

  Sam Huff

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Pride, Care

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.278, U of Nebraska Press

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• I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

  Tom Osborne

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

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• Winning means being unafraid to lose.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Fran Tarkenton, Tad Tuleja (1986). “How to motivate people: the team strategy for success”, Harpercollins

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• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Greek, Possibility

  Poetics ch. 24, 1460a

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• If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Bother, Ifs

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• If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Games, Lines

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• Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Loyalty, Giving

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• Put the Team Before Yourself.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Team, Basketball Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

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• Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Kids, Winning

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

  Harvey Penick

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player

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• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Practice, Games

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• To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Team, Feels

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• A winner never whines.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Player, Giving

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• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Coward

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.118, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Live as if you were living already for the second time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Mans Search For Meaning

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• You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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• I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Mistake

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