Coaching Quotes - Page 28

• As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

  Cobi Jones

  Exercise, Player, Careers

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• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

  Chuck Daly

  Jobs, Airplane, Land

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• You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

  Don Nelson

  Mean, Tears, Remember

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• We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

  Bobby Knight

  Integrity, School, Kentucky

  "Knight chides Calipari in Indiana speech". www.espn.com. December 18, 2009.

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• It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to the table. Character on a team is important, but you've got to have the horses to win.

  Mookie Wilson

  Horse, Team, Character

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• If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

  Indra Nooyi

  Husband, Boss, Mentor

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• Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.

  John Wooden

  Teaching, Believe, Responsibility

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• Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Leader

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• Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Believe

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• The team with the most talent usually wins.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Perfection

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Details, Mentoring

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• Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

  John Wooden

  Simple, Keep It Simple

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• When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

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• I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they're children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Children, People, Understanding

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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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• My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

  Mark Sanchez

  Home, School, Offensive

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• You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

  Andy Stanley

  May, Input, Impossible

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.107, Multnomah

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• I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, League

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• I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

  Lou Holtz

  Blessing, Matter, Mentoring

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• I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

  Jo Durie

  Missing, Training, Void

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• I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

  Stu Jackson

  Teaching, Games, Competition

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.

  Chip Kelly

  Jobs, Successful, Player

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