Coaching Quotes

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment. ~ John Wooden

When you are designing your plan, think not in terms of what you need to do, think in term of what you need to achieve. ~ T. Jay Taylor

As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories. ~ John Madden

That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn't good, I might have made a career change. ~ Steve Alford

Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well. ~ Charlie Weis

What is considered impossible is someone else's opinion. What is possible is my decision. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

It was made to fail, born to be co-opted and subsumed into the junky ferrywake of media's coaching. ~ David Foster Wallace

It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff. ~ Urban Meyer

What does this program/team need this week? ~ Dick Bennett

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense. ~ Chuck Daly

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster. ~ Andy Stanley

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

...you can always agree on one thing. You can shake hands, smile, and say, 'Yes...we will have to agree to disagree. ~ Ken Poirot

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left. ~ Bobby Bowden

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game. ~ Lon Kruger

The best help you can get is someone who genuinely cares and knows how to help you get what you don't even know you want. ~ Richie Norton

Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help) ~ Robert A. Schuller

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong. ~ Patrick Ewing

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given. ~ Lou Holtz

Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Coaching about girls ~ Amy DuBoff

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching. ~ Brad Gilbert

Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach is three years. ~ George M. Gilbert

I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally. ~ Nigel Short

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you. ~ John Wooden

As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran. ~ Richard Strozzi-Heckler

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time. ~ Richard Krajicek

You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time ~ Chip Kelly

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for these multiple coaches and assistant coaches - I wouldn't give that back for anything, because I believe that's going to prepare me for my next step, whether that's going to be on the floor coaching or in an office doing some type of management work. ~ Drew Gooden

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching. ~ Steve Spurrier

Have ten successful people share their recipe for success and you shall receive ten different versions. What is your recipe ,and why not add the first ingredient today? Develop a plan. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago. ~ Don Meyer

Your sister," I say evenly, "is incredibly sick. I'm sorry if that interferes with your dentist's appointment or your plan to go buy a pair of cleats. But those don't rate quite as high in the grand scheme of things right now. I'd think that since you're ten, you might be able to grow up enough to realize that the whole world doesn't always revolve around you."
Jesse looks out the window, where Kate straddles the arm of an oak tree, coaching Anna in how to climb up. "Yeah, right, she's sick," he says. "Why don't you grow up? Why don't you figure out that the world doesn't revolve around her?"
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There is a scuffle on the other side of the door, and then it swings open. Blood covers Jesse's mouth, a vampire's lipstick; bits of wire stick out like a seamstress's pins. I notice the fork he is holding, and realize this is what he used to pull off his braces.
"Now you never have to take me anywhere," he says. ~ Jodi Picoult

I truly believe that success is determined not on Friday nights during games but rather in practice away from the lights and glimmer where coaches and players only have each other, their sweat, their discipline and their loyalty to each other. It is at practice where the boys of America become men through hard work, dedication and perseverance. ~ George M. Gilbert

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become. ~ Scotty Bowman

I believe the objective of coaching is winning with integrity. ~ Pete Carril

No one has ever drowned in sweat. ~ Lou Holtz

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear. ~ Reese Witherspoon

It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning. ~ George M. Gilbert

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside. ~ Phil Jackson

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul. ~ Joe Ehrmann

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success. ~ Bud Wilkinson

I am convinced the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff has been winging it the past few years. No consistency. ~ Ace Antonio Hall

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. ~ Pat Riley

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. ~ Bobby Knight

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching. ~ Brittany Howard

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

An alpha man is confident, fully centered in his masculine core, sure of his self worth and what he brings to the table in dating and relationships. He doesn't seek the approval of others and is repulsed by women who don't recognize his value, no matter how attractive the woman might be. An alpha man knows that he fully deserves a partner who mutually chooses him and makes a mutual effort to be together. If a man doesn't recognize himself to be valuable, then women will not see him as valuable either. What you feel, you attract." (Coach Ricioppo Parra) ~ Alessio David Ricioppo Parra

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~ William James

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games. ~ Tom Glavine

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! ~ Lou Holtz

I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun. ~ Tony Gwynn

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid. ~ Ray Lewis

Coaching should be a process of inquiry, not a series of questions. ~ Marcia Reynolds

How you coach them is how they're going to play. ~ Stefan Fatsis

consider trying to forgive him yet again. He did his part, so I returned to our home in Virginia that summer of 2010. I wasn't hopeful, but I didn't have the strength to end our marriage - or to save it. We attended counseling together for a while, but the conversations reached dead ends. Nonetheless, Robert attempted to rebuild our connection. He wasn't staying out all night. He helped with the kids and seemed committed to fixing the broken bond between us. Before we knew it, training camp was starting again and he would once again be competing for a spot on the roster. The coaching staff had experienced some changes, ~ Sarah Jakes

The kitchen is a high-speed environment, so the more flexible you are so better ~ Marcel Riemer

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. ~ John Brady

For a moment I think to myself, which connection is quicker to God? Telepathically or by email? Maybe there's a quicker turnaround time if I email my problems. I should probably start by apologizing and doing something spiritual to make up for my long absence. Would an Angel with poor customer service etiquette respond to my email? Is there an 800 holy number to dial? If so, which manual would the Angel be reading from? The Bible or the Qur'an? Does it matter? Would the Angel have Sister Mary sitting next to her, watching and coaching her on how to talk to people with issues? And how do you handle four billion calls a day? I suppose I would have to wait my turn in line, just like everyone else. ~ Sadiqua Hamdan

Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer! ~ Kevin Pietersen

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone. ~ Morgan Wootten

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless. ~ T Jay Taylor

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. ~ Pete Carroll

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. ~ Phil Jackson

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator! ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game. ~ Lord Byron

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot. ~ Tom Heinsohn

Practice to beat the best. ~ Dick Bennett

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle. ~ Pete Carroll

We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible. ~ Tom DeMarco

I never drop a player I only make changes. ~ Bill Shankly

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard. ~ Karch Kiraly

To this day, I remain awestruck by the fact that human beings are capable of this type of metamorphosis. We don't have to stay stuck displaying the same personality traits over the course of our lifetime but are free to transform into higher expressions of ourselves. Today I can honestly say that I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that human beings are capable of making radical and lasting change. After a decade of coaching individuals and leading groups, I have discovered that if I don't buy into people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of, I can bypass their public personas and see who they are in their highest expression. With a little effort, I can see their magnificence and their potential no matter what they look like or what condition their emotional, spiritual, or financial world is in. I can see through their acts, their personas, their fears and insecurities. I can see who they are apart from the baggage they carry around. The undeniable fact is that underneath all of our public personas, we already are that which we desire to be. Our only job is to see past our own limitations so that we can return to that which we already are. ~ Debbie Ford

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. ~ Don Meyer

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work. ~ Bear Bryant

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can. ~ Tom Landry

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. ~ John Wooden

Confidence gets you off to a fast start. Confidence gets you that first job and maybe the next two promotions. But confidence stops you from learning. Confidence becomes a caricature after a while. I can't tell you how many confident blowhards I've seen in my coaching career who never get better after the age of forty." -- Bill Walsh ~ Rich Karlgaard

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a "nice" or "moral" idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, "I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else." Abundance says, "By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result. ~ Daniel Burrus

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. ~ Timothy Gallwey

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple! ~ John Wooden

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching. ~ John Barth

Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others
while giving the best of yourself. ~ David Cottrell

If you want to get better, get coached. ~ Joseph Deitch

When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Beth will come back and coach Gretchen and Kailey on how to say the right things. I don't know if anyone is coaching the boys, but it seems unfair. Why do Gretchen and Kailey have to learn how to be the right kind of victims? ~ T.E. Carter

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. ~ Lou Holtz

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it. ~ John Wooden

Share your strengths, not your weaknesses. ~ Yogi Bhajan

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game. ~ John Madden

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society. ~ Allen Newell

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to. ~ Thomas Dooley

The will is transformed by experience, not information. ~ Dallas Willard

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. ~ Don Meyer