Coaches Quotes - Page 3

• My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Drama, Acting, Used

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• 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

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Football, Smart, Stupid

  Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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• I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Guy, Hard

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• A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Winning, Careers

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Football, Running

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• I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Thinking, League

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

  Pete Maravich

  Basketball, Father, Sometimes

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• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

  John Madden

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

  John Madden

  Sports, Player, Nfl

  John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

  Jet Li

  Art, School, Years

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• But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Jobs, Passion

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• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Player, Different

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• The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Sports, Boss

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• There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic

  Mark Spitz

  Workout, Years, Two

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• I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Player, Years, Six Year Olds

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• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Player, Managers

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• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Responsibility, Player

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• I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

  Phil Simms

  Player, Mad, Guy

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• I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Black, Should

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