Top 54 Over Coaching Quotes
#1. Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
Dean Smith
#2. Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!
John Wooden
#3. One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.
Richard Leider
#4. Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#5. I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.
Ryne Sandberg
#6. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
Doc Rivers
#7. Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
Don Meyer
#8. The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.
Bob Hartley
#9. I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
Joe Paterno
#10. I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.
Diandra Asbaty
#11. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
#12. The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
#13. I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
Ryne Sandberg
#14. I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.
Bobby Bowden
#15. I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
Curt Flood
#16. Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.
Pete Newell
#17. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#18. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#19. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#20. Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.
Jim Cleamons
#21. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson
#22. In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.
Shwayze
#23. I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.
Dean Smith
#24. Like everything else I teach in my coaching, staying in shape for me is about the little actions and changes in lifestyle that have a huge effect over time.
Matthew Hussey
#25. Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
Vince Lombardi
#26. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Robert Montgomery Knight
#27. Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.
Rossana Condoleo
#28. I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.
Jo Durie
#29. 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
#30. You haven't taught until they've learned.
John Wooden
#31. The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
Red Auerbach
#32. You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
Don Shula
#33. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#34. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
Patrick Williams
#35. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.
Michael J. Marx
#36. When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you.
Robert Schuler
#37. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
George M. Gilbert
#38. Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.
Stefan Fatsis
#41. The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.
LeBron James
#42. Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.
Tom DeMarco
#43. That type of analysis could include data from training staffs and coaching staffs, performance data, and medical data.
Benjamin C. Alamar
#44. Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.
Dalai Lama
#45. You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.
Joe Gibbs
#46. Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever.
Farshad Asl
#47. Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.
Robert Zuppke
#48. You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
Mike Krzyzewski
#49. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#50. Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)
Robert A. Schuller
#52. That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.
Sid Gillman
#54. You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
George Halas
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