Quotes About The Coaching

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The idea of creating the coaching group is a great idea. Jeremy deserves lots of credit for making it happen. Nice job Jeremy

John Cook

#4. Coaching is a non-directive conversation in which the coach asks a person questions to prompt reflection into what God is saying to that person. The coaching process empowers the person to develop custom solutions for his or her problems or goals.

Keith Webb

#5. I think when you have strong leadership at the coaching level and you empower the coach and the coaching staff, you have a lot more stability.

Jeffrey Lurie

#6. It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Michael Chang

#7. I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

Gary Carter

#8. I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

Cobi Jones

#9. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

Bruce Jay Friedman

#10. The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.

Aubrey Malphurs

#11. The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

Randy Carlyle

#12. In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

Clair Bee

#13. To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#14. Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

Sid Gillman

#15. My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Arthur Blank

#16. In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#17. At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Michael Strahan

#18. The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

Scotty Bowman

#19. There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

Bill Laimbeer

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Drew Gooden

#24. Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

Paul Rankin

#25. 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

#26. It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

Michael Cooper

#27. The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Red Auerbach

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

Patrick Williams

#31. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

Michael J. Marx

#32. Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

Stefan Fatsis

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

Dalai Lama

#36. 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

#37. Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

Robert Zuppke

#38. You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Mike Krzyzewski

#39. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.

Raphael Zernoff

#40. No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Lou Holtz

#41. 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

#42. Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.

Tom DeMarco

#43. One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

Richard Leider

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Philip Yancey

#49. 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

#50. I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Bobby Bowden

#51. I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

Curt Flood

#52. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

George M. Gilbert

#53. 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

#54. It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.

Luke Mitchell

#55. Professional/personal coaching addresses the whole person - with an emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living.

Laura Whitworth

#56. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

Jeff Benedict

#57. People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

John Madden

#58. The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

Don Meyer

#59. Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!

Kevin Pietersen

#60. I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

Steve Alford

#61. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

Paul Gibbons

#62. Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Pat Williams

#63. He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#64. Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

Jim Cleamons

#65. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#66. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?

Vatsala Shukla

#67. 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

#68. Great pilots are made not born ... A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.

Johnnie Johnson

#69. I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun.

Tony Gwynn

#70. I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

Robert A. Heinlein

#71. All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

Bear Bryant

#72. Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

Chuck Daly

#73. Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.

Pat Burns

#74. When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Bobby Knight

#75. Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Paul Gibbons

#76. Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

John Wooden

#77. Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

Hugh McCutcheon

#78. The team is an extension of the coach.

Don Meyer

#79. Playing well and winning the Super Bowl helped my credibility. Otherwise, when Id give an opinion, people would say, What has he done? If I didnt win that Super Bowl, Id probably be coaching somewhere. TV would not be an option for me. So, (winning the Super Bowl) does help.

Phil Simms

#80. Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.

Jerry Krause

#81. It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

Bruce Sutter

#82. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

#83. Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

John Barth

#84. The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

#85. Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing.

Tony Dovale

#86. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Pat Conroy

#87. We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

Roy Clark

#88. Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

Brittany Howard

#89. I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.

Steve Spurrier

#90. But until then, you might find yourself laboring much longer than you should, still trying to get someone to change, thinking that one more coaching session will do the trick - or one more bit of encouragement, or one more session of feedback or confrontation. Or worse, one more concession.

Henry Cloud

#91. I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#92. When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

Majid Kazmi

#93. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Kirk Mango

#94. For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

Dick Bennett

#95. Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Don Meyer

#96. When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

John Wooden

#97. An authentic coaching relationship gives the client personal choice and control.

Michael J. Marx

#98. I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tom Glavine

#99. The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

Stephen Hawking

#100. Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Steve Waugh