Sports Coaching Quotes

#1. A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

Ben Schwartzwalder

#2. We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

James Counsilman

#3. It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Delbert McClinton

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

Allen Newell

#8. 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

#9. Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

Marv Levy

#10. 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

#11. I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

Robin Farina

#12. Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Al McGuire

#13. On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

Fred Shero

#14. The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

Ric Charlesworth

#15. How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.

Pope Francis

#16. Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

James Rouse

#17. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

Peter Richmond

#18. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

George S. Patton

#19. As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

Robin Farina

#20. A champion always prepares to win.

D.C. Gonzalez

#21. The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

John Kessel

#22. I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Shankly

#23. 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

#24. I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Billie Jean King

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

Randy Carlyle

#26. In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.

Shwayze

#27. Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Mike Krzyzewski

#28. Be fair. Play hard.

Dan Venezia

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

Kirk Mango

#30. It is not your job to make anyone else happy.

Bryant McGill

#31. 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

#32. Delving deeply in this [gender healing] work inevitably takes people on an inner journey, and, if they follow it far enough, they are ultimately let into an awakening of an expansive, all-encompassing love.

William Keepin

#33. I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.

Fernando Pessoa