Coaching Quotes - Page 26

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  About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

  Randy Carlyle

  Sports, Hockey, Hands

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• What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.

  Marc Trestman

  Lasts, Lifetime

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Football

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• I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, War

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• We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Giving Up

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• I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

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• I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1907, Triumph Books

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• If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You haven't taught until they've learned.

  John Wooden

  Taught, Havens

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• I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

  Cotton Fitzsimmons

  Being Yourself, Philosophy, Winning

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• Nobody's more important than the team.

  Rejean Houle

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Athlete

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• You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• You get what you tolerate!

  John Brady

  Basketball, Tolerate, Basketball Coaching

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• The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

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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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• 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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• The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

  William James

  Truth, Lying, Philosophical

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Team guts always beat individual greatness.

  Robert Zuppke

  Sports, Team, Greatness

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