Quotes About Athletes And Coaches

#1. My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

Arthur Lydiard

#2. Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies.

Fritz Crisler

#3. We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

Linford Christie

#4. Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

Rick Pitino

#6. Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

Mark Rippetoe

#7. Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Richard Rohr

#8. We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

Dominique Moceanu

#9. Best coaches never tell their athletes that they are wrong.They rather focus on creating awareness.

Abhishek Ratna

#10. The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

Brent Scowcroft

#11. Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

Dave Barry

#12. The thing that concerns me the most is when I hear that people are making a lot of money a lot of ways except for the athletes, whether it's on the bowl games, the TV contracts, the conferences, the schools, the coaches, however you want to say it.

Nick Saban

#13. If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

Nichiren

#14. Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

John Williams

#15. And I lay awake wondering if either one was bothered by it - the thought of those four graves.

Truman Capote

#16. A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.

Pat Cher

#17. My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

John Roderick

#18. Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Tom Udall

#19. Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

Gordie Gillespie

#20. Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

Charles R. Sledge Jr.

#21. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm

#22. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

Victor Hugo