Coaching Quotes - Page 36

• Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

  Ruud Gullit

  Football, Missing, Sometimes

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• I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.

  Shelia Burrell

  Teaching, Track, Wanted

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• Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Art, Inspirational Running

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• Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

  Dick Vitale

  Moving, Two, Fire

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• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brandt

  Sports, Dream, Impossible

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• The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Moon, Play

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• I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

  Lou Holtz

  Player, Talking, People

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• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Talent

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• Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Basketball Coaching

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• To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

  Joe Morgan

  Weakness, Ability

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• Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Essentials, Conditioning

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• The team is the star, never an individual player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt

  Paul-Emile Victor

  Failing

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• Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, People, Sick

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• I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Satisfied

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• Leadership starts at the top.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Basketball Coaching

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• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  Joe Sakic

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you

  Bill Walsh

  Games, Competition, Innovation

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• I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less

  Paul Brown

  Believe, Winning, Littles

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• People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

  Bill Walsh

  People, Criticism, May

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• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Heaven

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• Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

  John Whitmore

  Responsibility, Essence, Awareness

  John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
  spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.

  Bear Bryant

  Balls, Rewards, Causes

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• I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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