Winning Coach Quotes

#1. My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.

Dean Koontz

#2. I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.

Jim Harbaugh

#3. I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Adolph Rupp

#4. The coach should keep out of the way ... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Romario

#5. Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#6. Coach (Pat) Riley told us on June 8 we'd win the title on June 20.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#8. I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'

Barry Goldwater

#9. Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

Earl Campbell

#10. Hed been to the playoffs before. I was asked last week what I thought this season has felt like for Coach Gibbs. I would think it must seem very familiar to a man with all those playoff wins. Hes a great coach who understands how to get his team to play.

Mark Brunell

#11. My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

Serena Williams

#12. Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#13. A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Chuck Noll

#14. Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

Patrick Ewing

#15. Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.

Jose Mourinho

#16. Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.

George M. Gilbert

#17. You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

Doc Rivers

#18. Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.

George M. Gilbert

#19. 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

#20. Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

Stephen Keshi

#22. I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

Al Davis

#23. We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Bode Miller

#24. I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

Monte Lipman

#25. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.

Michael McGovern

#26. It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

Will Muschamp

#27. As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

Bobby Knight

#28. It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

Steve Alford

#29. My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Bill Parcells

#30. To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

LeBron James

#31. A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,

Pete Carril

#32. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

Lou Holtz

#36. The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

Franz Stampfl

#37. We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Lou Holtz

#38. Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#39. I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.

Bob Hartley

#40. In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

Pat Riley

#41. You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

Diana Lopez

#42. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

Red Auerbach

#43. We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.

Dan Marino

#44. I want to work for Nigeria, my blood is here. I captained this team for 14 years, and it is my country. But you people think if there is no Super Eagles we won't exist. I came from another country to coach the Super Eagles so don't think if we don't win my career is over, no. It's just starting.

Stephen Keshi