Coaching Quotes - Page 25

• The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Worst

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• Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, Ladders

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• It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

  Jens Lehmann

  Careers, Decision, Insulting

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• The [best] coaches... know that the job is to win... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don't have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn't hired to do anything but win.

  Bill Walsh

  Loyalty, Strong, Jobs

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• I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Sports, Money

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

  Vince Lombardi

  Loss, Winning, Winner

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• The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Definitions, Enthusiasm, Defeat

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• If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

  Bud Grant

  Player, Listening, Criticism

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• I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

  Chris Lytle

  Asking Questions, Discovery, Voyages

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.

  Jim Steen

  Inspirational, Graduation, Two

  Jim Steen's commencement address at Kenyon College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 2011.

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• I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.

  Curt Flood

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

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• The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Belief, Consciousness, Barriers

  "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.

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• One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Listening, Transformation

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• Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Persons, Seekers, Values

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• Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

  Dalai Lama

  Lessons, Forget

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• The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ears, Way, Life Is

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• We cannot transform what we refuse to engage

  Elizabeth Kucinich

  Refuse

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• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Method, Valuable

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• You are your choices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Work, People, Bent

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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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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