Coaching Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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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• My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Jobs, Assistants

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

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Bother, Ifs

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• The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Sports, Boss

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• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Movement, Opponents

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• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

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

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• If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Overcoming, Tough

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Innovation

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• Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Love Is

  "Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior: Spiritual Lessons as a Hardwood Warrior". Book by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, 1995.

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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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• 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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• There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Wave, Interest

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• We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Opportunity, Doors

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Team, Son

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

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

  Charles Haley

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Motivational Sports, Adversity

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• One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.

  Anson Dorrance

  Girl, Senior, Sports

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• Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

  Anson Dorrance

  Motivational, Sports, Strong

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• Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

  Anson Dorrance

  Sports, Volleyball, Player

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• Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

  Bruce Pearl

  Sports, Volleyball, Hard Work

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• We were over-whelming underdogs.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Sports, Underdog

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.29, Workman Publishing

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