Sports Coach Quotes - Page 3

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

Knute Rockne

Basketball, Team, Winning

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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 principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

Motivational, Change, Sports

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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Success, Failure

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Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Vince Lombardi

Hard Work, Will And Determination, Pay The Price

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I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Vince Lombardi

Success, Hard Work, Thinking

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The principle is competing against yourself.

Steve Young

Motivational, Sports, Football

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

Sports, Player, Nfl

John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Block

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The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Eddie Reese

Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Sports, Volleyball

Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.32, Hachette UK

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She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

Frank Carroll

Sports, Long, Skating

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This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

Bela Karolyi

Sports, Dream, Team

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A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

John Wooden

Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Men, Nba

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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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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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Knute Rockne

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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