Coaches Quotes

• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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  Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Believe, Player

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• There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.

  Walter Camp

  Work, Character, Effort

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

  Larry Gelwix

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

  Frank Broyles

  Strength, Real, Stupid

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• I've had hard coaches all my life.

  Chris Webber

  Life Is Hard, Hard Life, Hard

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• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

  Scott Brooks

  Games, Feels, Comfortable

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

  John Wooden

  Life, Positive, Basketball

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Thinking, Care

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• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Son

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• Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

  Bobby Orr

  Success, Sports, Kids

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• A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

  Andy Pick

  Team, Tree, One Day

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• Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Editors, Directors, Hybridity

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• I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Establishment

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• It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

  Lynn Davies

  Athlete, Following

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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