Top 100 Quotes About Your Coach
#1. You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#2. Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.
Steven Stamkos
#4. I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.
J. Kenner
#5. When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#6. You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
Steve Nash
#7. One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.
Chuck Knox
#8. As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.
Chael Sonnen
#10. I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.
Mitch Albom
#11. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
Patrick Williams
#12. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#13. 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
#14. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.
Sharon Law Tucker
#15. 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
#16. One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.
Patrick Willis
#17. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
Don Shula
#18. I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.
Michelle Mone
#19. New York lies
far beyond these islands, this
labyrinth. There,
once you emptied a subway coach
by simply closing your eyes
and chanting a summons
to the mountain gods.
Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino
#20. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.
Jon Gordon
#21. It's not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.
Brendan
#22. The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Bobby Knight
#23. What's your usual gig?"
"Physical fitness coach. I find it rather humdrum. Your assignment will be a welcome break in the quotidian ennui.
Julian May
#24. Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else.
Carson V. Heady
#25. Nico glanced back at Coach Hedge. The satyr just made a shooing gesture like, Go. Do your Underworld thing.
Rick Riordan
#26. Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.
Scotty Bowman
#27. As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback ... I've always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.
Eli Manning
#28. If you are not getting the results you want change your technique
Valarie Rocha
#29. As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Arsene Wenger
#30. Go about your work with a quiet confidence that cannot be shake...No matter what happens, remember if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.' (Ducky Drake, UCLA Track Coach)
David Maraniss
#31. It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.
Bob Kersee
#32. I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach always says, your body is like a car, and food is like your fuel. I am a race car, so I can't just put unleaded fuel in my car. I need that good premium fuel.
Lolo Jones
#33. If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.
Kemi Sogunle
#34. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
John Di Lemme
#35. I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
Russell Crowe
#36. Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
Chuck Daly
#37. Coach your customers in the area of your expertise
Timi Nadela
#38. Don't coach for the name on your business card
Larry Shyatt
#39. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
Archibald Marwizi
#40. At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.
Jim Harrison
#41. Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#43. If I could go back, I'd coach myself. I'd be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I'd be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#44. I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.
Gordon Strachan
#45. You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
Haile Gebrselassie
#46. When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
Chuck Pagano
#47. Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.
Tim Fargo
#49. Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?
Judith Briles
#50. Your soul is involved in your business. Your business exists for your soul.
Jodi Livon
#51. I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.
Spoken Reasons
#52. Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#53. You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
John Kessel
#54. We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential.
... if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.
Andy Stanley
#55. Coach Smith poked his head into the dugout. If you ladies are done with the warm and fuzzies, I'd like you to get your asses on the field with your team.
J. Sterling
#56. The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
Eric Schmidt
#57. A good Coach asks great questions to help you remove the obstacles in your mind and to get you back on track in life
Farshad Asl
#58. You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.
Vince Kehres
#59. So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
Steve Spurrier
#60. You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Don Meyer
#61. If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
Gary Speed
#62. Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.
Lorii Myers
#63. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.
James Mangold
#64. A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
Elaine MacDonald
#65. Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.
David Letterman
#66. In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
Tony La Russa
#67. to live with you forever. I want to buy the house on the river from my brothers, and I want you to have the coach house for your studio. I want to love you and make love to you every day and make up for every shitty day you ever had. I love you.
Victoria James
#68. The waiter arrived and took their orders. When he was gone, Macy added, Besides, my life coach says it's inefficient to spend time with people you're hoping will change, that it's a surefire way to derail your future.
J.D. Robb
#69. If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
Bobby Knight
#70. The wise can coach and explain but only you can unshackle your mind.
Philip Arnold
#71. In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.
Mimi Pond
#72. Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.
Sharon Law Tucker
#73. If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you'll never earn real trust from your players or employees.
Bill Courtney
#74. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#75. Your seeds of success won't grow unless you plant them. Intentions won't produce the results you want.
Clay Clark
#76. Business coach Dan Sullivan says, If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses!
Jack Canfield
#77. Active Listeners, listen more than they talk. Listen more than is comfortable. Listen more than most people. Listen, and listen and listen...then they ask the next question and listen again...that's a game changer... It will impact your ability to connect, to coach or to sell.
Farshad Asl
#78. I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
Michael J. Saylor
#79. Retailers must do a little bit of everything today. They need to wear many different hats - a business strategist, a store designer, a marketer, a merchandiser, a buyer, a financial wiz, a personnel officer, a coach, a trainer, and anything else that comes about when you run your own
James Dion
#80. You can't coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.
Steve House
#81. I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
Kevin Love
#82. Don't make me regret allowing you to choose your own partners," Coach told us.
"Don't make me regret coming to school today," said Vee sweetly.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#83. Pain is like a life coach in your body. It's what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn't. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.
Martha Beck
#84. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.
Delphine Arnault
#86. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.
Andy Stanley
#87. X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do
Hubie Brown
#88. 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
#89. If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
Tony La Russa
#90. Every coach should be recording games to watch ... use your VCR.
Don Meyer
#91. Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.
Neil Hayes
#92. A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
Michael Josephson
#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. It's always good to have your players with you, it makes you feel great. That is just it. The coach and the players understand one another but people outside don't understand. But it's good to see him, it's good to see all the players.
Stephen Keshi
#97. As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
Joe Namath
#98. If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
Lynn Davies
#99. Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
Bill Courtney
#100. However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.
Robin Farina
