Quotes About Sports Coaches

#1. Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

David Mitchell

#2. For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Hamish Bowles

#3. There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

Ken Loeffler

#4. We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#5. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

Rita Rudner

#6. I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Abe Lemons

#7. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Bum Phillips

#8. He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

Chad Harbach

#9. If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

John Wooden

#10. I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Ricky Williams

#11. Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

John Kessel

#12. No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

Robert Zuppke

#13. I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

Dawn Fraser

#14. Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

John Kessel

#15. I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

Dominique Moceanu

#16. I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Harvey Penick

#17. Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)

Bruce Boudreau

#18. I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

Geena Davis

#19. One thing with me, and every goal I've had - - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

Michael Phelps

#20. Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

Ken Morrow

#21. Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

John Kessel

#22. Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Durwood Merrill

#23. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Mike Piazza

#24. Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

#25. The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

Peter Jacobsen

#26. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#27. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

George Vecsey

#28. A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport - limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever - a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.

A.D. Aliwat

#29. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

#30. 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.

#31. There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Rick Reilly

#32. 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

#33. My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Amy Klobuchar

#34. Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

Bear Bryant

#35. The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Don Coryell

#36. Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#37. I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

Bear Bryant

#38. Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

George Vecsey

#39. Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.

George Allen

#40. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

Don Maynard

#41. Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

Harold Nicolson

#42. I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

Janet Evans

#43. To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

Berti Vogts

#44. Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

Chuck Knox

#45. The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

J. A. Adande