Coaching Quotes - Page 13

• You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Spring

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• Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Basketball, Writing, Ideas

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Losing

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• Players will never do more than you demand.

  Jimmy Tillette

  Basketball, Player, Demand

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Inspirational Basketball

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

  Frosty Westering

  Success, Basketball, Heart

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• The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

  Frosty Westering

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Fun, Player

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• We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.

  Joe

  Stars, Thinking, Great Things

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Jobs, Player, Night

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Confusion

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• No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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• Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Player, Planning

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• Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Style, Trying

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• I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

  Patrick Ewing

  Opportunity, League, Persons

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