Coaching Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

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• One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Healing, Listening

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Player

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• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Winning, Differences

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

  Chip Kelly

  Bigs, Right Now

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• Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Book, Audio

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• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

  Ralph Jordan

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Team, Spoiled

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• Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

  Joe Gibbs

  Basketball, Character, Player

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• Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Team, Vision

  "7 Leadership Lessons You Can Learn From the Game of Basketball" By Andre Bourque, www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Hearing improves with PRAISE!

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Hearing, Praise

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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Caring, Practice

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• Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, People, Ability To Communicate

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• Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, Hate, Love You

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• I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and I want to teach five power moves. They are power layup straight up; pump-fake one bounce to the other side power layup; pogo when you catch it up high, keep it up high, and shoot it; and then the two-hand follow shot.

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, Moving, Hands

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• Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

  Henry Iba

  Basketball, Daughter, Son

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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  Wayne Rooney

  One Day, Badges, Managers

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• Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Opportunity

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• As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Offense And Defense, Two

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• I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Moving, Heart

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• When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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• A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

  Billy Donovan

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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