Good Coaches Quotes

• A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Basketball, Games, Great Coach

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• A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

  Ara Parseghian

  Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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• People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Team

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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• A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

  Andy Stanley

  Coaching, Limits, Helping

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• Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

  Jack Welch

  Coaching, Important, Doe

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• When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Hockey, Nhl

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• The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Motivation, Games

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• It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

  Michael Gartner

  Demand, Economy, Great Coach

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• We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

  Joe Dumars

  Smart, Player, Three

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• The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

  George E. P. Box

  Team, Order, Ideas

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• Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  Mark Rippetoe

  Training, Ceilings, Bars

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• I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Being Yourself, Philosophy

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• Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Years, Trouble

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• There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.

  Avery Johnson

  Strong, Character, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

  Cain Velasquez

  Wrestling, Successful, Mma

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Chess

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, People, Risk

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• Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

  John Wooden

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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