Top 100 Quotes About Coaching
#1. Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan,
Jim Harbaugh
#2. Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
Bum Phillips
#3. People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.
Bill Toomey
#4. I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.'
Marv Levy
#6. I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.
Gordon Taylor
#7. Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
Brad Gilbert
#8. Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,
Brian Clough
#9. As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
Robin Farina
#10. Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others
while giving the best of yourself.
David Cottrell
#11. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.
Chris Kluwe
#12. I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
Patrick Ewing
#13. People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
Tony Dungy
#14. When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.
Tony Dungy
#15. People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
Brendon Burchard
#16. anyone who has done any teaching or coaching knows that one's mastery of a subject deepens considerably in trying to explain it.
Rafael Aguayo
#17. 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
#18. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#19. Coaching offers customized, one-on-one support to assist individuals in reaching their goals. The process involves goal setting, identifying obstacles, brainstorming solutions and creating a workable action plan.
Barbara Bissonnette
#20. Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
Tom Landry
#21. I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
Christopher Atkins
#22. One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.
Rick Majerus
#23. I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.
Thomas Dooley
#24. For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.
Warren Gatland
#25. You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
Bob Cousy
#26. My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
Robin S. Sharma
#27. He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.
Bobby Bowden
#28. Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all,
Thomas Lee
#29. Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.
Jim Craig
#30. I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
Stu Jackson
#31. Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
Bobby Bowden
#32. Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
Ruud Gullit
#33. 5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching".
Jay Woodman
#34. The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
Scotty Bowman
#35. You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.
Lou Holtz
#36. Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.
John Whitmore
#37. If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
#38. To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.
Sue Bird
#39. We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.
James Counsilman
#40. Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Phil Crosby
#41. Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#42. I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
Dean Smith
#43. After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
Anson Dorrance
#44. Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
is being called 'Coach.'
Lou Holtz
#45. You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
Bill Parcells
#46. Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.
Elaine MacDonald
#47. You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
Don Nelson
#48. There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
Daniel Kahneman
#49. There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.
Bill Laimbeer
#50. One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#51. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#53. Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
Michael Chang
#54. I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.
Lee Majors
#55. The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.
Johnny Majors
#56. You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
Joe Sakic
#57. The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
Rick Pitino
#58. In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
Vince Lombardi
#59. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.
John Kessel
#60. An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.
Farshad Asl
#61. I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
Alan Palomo
#62. When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
Bill Parcells
#63. Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#64. No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Oksana Baiul
#65. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
Bill Fitch
#66. We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
Bobby Knight
#67. 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
#68. Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.
Pete Lembo
#69. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
#70. Life coaching is a way of life, not just another monotonous job that eventually saps one's energy. It's a profession that makes people feel like they have a lot to contribute to the world they're living in. A greater understanding of the concept is needed in order to apply it, though.
James Browning
#71. The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
Allen Newell
#72. Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.
Marty Stern
#73. I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
Marv Levy
#74. I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.
Sebastian Coe
#75. Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
Lou Holtz
#76. Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.
Chip Kelly
#77. Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.
Rocky Bridges
#78. A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.
Warren Gatland
#79. Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.
Kirk Ferentz
#80. As always I am focused on training and coaching my team
Rafael Benitez
#81. I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.
Don Cooper
#82. I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.
Roger Ailes
#83. With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Gary Neville
#84. It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
Dick Vitale
#85. My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.
Don Shula
#86. I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.
Tony La Russa
#87. I am convinced the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff has been winging it the past few years. No consistency.
Ace Antonio Hall
#88. Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
Steve Yzerman
#89. I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
Bernard Ebbers
#90. I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.
Kevin Costner
#91. When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
John Madden
#92. Coaching is a service. We serve our clients and have their well-being as the higher priority.
Michael J. Marx
#93. Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time ... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.
Joe Montana
#94. If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
Warren Gatland
#95. If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching ... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.
Indra Nooyi
#96. We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.
Les Miles
#97. This is the first time since I've been coaching that I gave them off on Christmas Day. Sometimes when you lose a game you want to get right back at it. But in reality I thank God we had an opportunity for our guys to be home with their families on Christmas.
Louis Orr
#98. Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.
Tommy Prothro
#99. Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
Lou Holtz
#100. There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
Brian O'Driscoll
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