Coaching Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Team, Commitment

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• Team guts always beat individual greatness.

  Robert Zuppke

  Sports, Team, Greatness

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• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

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• A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.

  John McNally

  Strong, Player, Guy

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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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• Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

  Rick Warren

  Positivity, Wearing A Mask, Pretending

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• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Innovation

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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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• 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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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Real, Training

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

  Peter Facinelli

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

  Lord Byron

  Work, Passion, People

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• There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Player, Staff

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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

  Ralph Jordan

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Volleyball, Player, Long

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• There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

  Robert Monroe

  Ends

  Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony

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• The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Boards, Tools

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• Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Excellence, Trying

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