Top 100 A Coach Is Quotes
#1. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
#2. I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.
Meryl Davis
#3. One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.
Patrick Willis
#4. A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.
Robert Zuppke
#5. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
#6. If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
John Madden
#7. A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!
Michael Jordan
#8. A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
Tom Landry
#9. Having a social appetite for knowledge and wanting to develop and improve as a coach is important, but I believe in empowering people, particularly the other coaches that work with the team, giving them ownership and responsibility.
Warren Gatland
#10. Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Dick Motta
#11. A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.
Leeman Bennett
#12. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Stephen Covey
#13. If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
Hansie Cronje
#14. Don't be afraid to say "No". It's empowering. Remember, a "Yes" is a commitment. Give them wisely.
Sharon Law Tucker
#15. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.
Nathaniel Branden
#16. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.
Toni Sorenson
#17. You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
Darrell Royal
#18. One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.
Roger Goodell
#19. No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.
Ray Lewis
#20. 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
#21. The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.
Andrew Miller
#22. The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Bobby Knight
#24. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente Del Bosque
#25. Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.
Gary Rohrmayer
#26. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
Bill Parcells
#27. Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.
Dusty Baker
#28. A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
John Wooden
#29. I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach always says, your body is like a car, and food is like your fuel. I am a race car, so I can't just put unleaded fuel in my car. I need that good premium fuel.
Lolo Jones
#30. I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
Russell Crowe
#31. There is no practice more vexing than that of authors describing coach travel for the edification of people who have already travelled in coaches. As I must adhere to form, however, I will simply list a series of phrases for the unlikely reader who has never gone anywhere:
Lyndsay Faye
#32. My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here
Bob Bruce
#33. 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
#34. Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.
Matt Cullen
#35. 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
#36. This isn't an easy lifestyle for a coach's wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.
Joe Gibbs
#37. One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.
Ray Lewis
#38. There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.
Jay Leno
#39. If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.
Bud Grant
#40. For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.
Scott Herman
#41. The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.
Gordon Strachan
#42. Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#43. Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#44. I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
Mike Krzyzewski
#45. CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
Bob Harper
#47. Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
Barry Levinson
#48. But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow ... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
John Quincy Adams
#49. My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#50. But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
Parminder Nagra
#52. It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Simon Sinek
#53. Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.
Liam Tancock
#54. For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy
#55. Business coach Dan Sullivan says, If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses!
Jack Canfield
#56. I feel I am a players' coach. The only thing that means is I care about my players more than anything.
Rex Ryan
#57. Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
Pat Conroy
#58. People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
Samantha Stosur
#59. Pain is like a life coach in your body. It's what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn't. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.
Martha Beck
#60. It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.
John Madden
#62. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett
#63. X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do
Hubie Brown
#64. Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently
Catherine Cox
#65. I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
Oksana Chusovitina
#66. Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.
Jenna Morasca
#67. If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
Tony La Russa
#68. Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
Jose Contreras
#69. Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.
Neil Hayes
#70. Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.
Andrew Luck
#71. Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
Tom Heinsohn
#72. Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
Johan Cruijff
#73. I really like the challenge of working with different kinds of music. I feel like my role is really like a coach, so I feel like I can do my job for different kinds of music that may not necessarily be what I listen to.
Rick Rubin
#74. As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings - trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist. I
Bernie Sanders
#75. My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.
Danielle LaPorte
#76. This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.
Abbas Kiarostami
#78. Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
Patrick Ewing
#79. While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.
Diego Maradona
#80. Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
Jose Mourinho
#81. He told me once that praying is like being a soccer coach and calling saints off the bench.
Ian Caldwell
#82. I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
Gordon Gee
#83. Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players to play for Nigeria. If you bring a European coach, he should also bring oyinbo (white) players. That's how it is.
Stephen Keshi
#85. When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
Lou Holtz
#86. I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.
Mike Singletary
#87. Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
Jack Ramsay
#88. I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.
Brendan Rodgers
#89. I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.
Aubrey Plaza
#90. Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
Johan Cruijff
#91. I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
Alber Elbaz
#92. It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.
LeBron James
#93. I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.
Hope Powell
#94. Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.
George M. Gilbert
#96. The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#97. No matter what the power source is, a sinusoidal pattern will always remain the same. Similarly, our lives have a certain pattern and that's of happiness and sorrow. We feel that we are in control of things and everything is going according to plan but life is again following a pattern.
Ackshat Deoli
#98. I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
Archie Panjabi
#99. I think my father is probably the best coach ever because if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
Serena Williams
#100. Truth is not negative. Truth helps us see things from a fresh perspective. Truth educates, creates awareness, and is the first step to initiating any real and lasting change.
Tonya Sheridan
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