Coaching Quotes - Page 6

• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• Either love your players or get out of coaching.

  Bobby Dodd

  Teamwork, Love You, Player

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• I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Rumor, Interest, I Can

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stress, Player

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• I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Squash, Roots

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• Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Thinking, Interest

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• I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Marketing, Economy, Good Coaches

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• Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Winning

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• But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that

  Richard Krajicek

  Jobs, Mean, Player

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• No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Responsibility, Coaches

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Player, Practice

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Games, Cricket

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• If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Art, Successful

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• We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

  Roy Clarke

  School, Kids, Player

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• Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Player, Ability

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• Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Basketball, Hands, Holding On

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• Whatever happens, take responsibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

  Scotty Bowman

  Games, Scotty

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• For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Maturity, People, Rooms

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

  Bobby Knight

  Should, Coaches, Asks

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• As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.19, Penguin

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• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Effectiveness, Broken, Goal

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• A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Winning, Careers

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