Motivational Coaching Quotes

• The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

  Knute Rockne

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Basketball, Running, Yesterday

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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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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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Football

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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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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• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

  Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Peter Newell (1990). “More annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there”, Random House Inc

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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