Top 70 Team Coaching Quotes
#1. As always I am focused on training and coaching my team
Rafael Benitez
#2. Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.
George M. Gilbert
#3. Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.
George M. Gilbert
#4. The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.
Dean Smith
#5. Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
Clair Bee
#6. You must be personally reliable before you can coach your team to generate reliable results.
Lee Colan
#7. 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
#9. The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.
George M. Gilbert
#10. It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.
George M. Gilbert
#11. The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement.
George M. Gilbert
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
George M. Gilbert
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
Bill Parcells
#19. To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
Morgan Wootten
#20. I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
#21. we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play
George M. Gilbert
#22. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
George M. Gilbert
#23. Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses.
George M. Gilbert
#24. 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
#25. America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
George M. Gilbert
#26. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#27. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.
George M. Gilbert
#29. The most important thing is team morale.
Dean Smith
#30. The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
Mike Krzyzewski
#31. If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
John Brady
#32. Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach is three years.
George M. Gilbert
#33. Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.
George M. Gilbert
#34. Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.
George M. Gilbert
#35. If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!
George M. Gilbert
#36. The team is an extension of the coach.
Don Meyer
#37. When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.
Reggie Lee
#39. 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
#40. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
George M. Gilbert
#41. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
George M. Gilbert
#42. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.
Liz Weber
#43. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson
#44. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team
Jack Ramsay
#45. In the early 1990s, Target adopted some of Walt Disney's staff training and customer service initiatives. It has since developed a variety of methods - from hiring to coaching to grading performance - to ensure "team members" embody the motto "fast, fun and friendly." (See Chapter 5.)
Laura Rowley
#46. It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.
Matt Busby
#47. 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
#48. What does this program/team need this week?
Dick Bennett
#49. Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. Team members not confident in their roles lose motivation quickly.
Martin Zwilling
#50. I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.
Jim Leyland
#51. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#52. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#53. 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
#54. Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
Tom Heinsohn
#55. Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.
Jim Craig
#56. To be a team, you must be a family.
Don Meyer
#57. It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
George M. Gilbert
#58. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.
George M. Gilbert
#59. 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
#60. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
George M. Gilbert
#62. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
George M. Gilbert
#63. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
George M. Gilbert
#64. My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
#65. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#67. 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
#68. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
George M. Gilbert
#69. I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
#70. Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
Marv Levy
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
