Coaching Quotes - Page 14

• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Religious

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• My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

  Karch Kiraly

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

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• Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
  to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
  than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
  is being called 'Coach.'

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, People, Honor

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• Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

  Robert Zuppke

  Determination, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

  Hannah Kearney

  Simple, Advice, Done

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• Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Baseball, Father, School

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• Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth

  John Whitmore

  Growth, Unlocking, Persons

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• One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Sports, Team, Character

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• We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

  James Counsilman

  Sports, Art, Knowing

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• No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Should, Curse

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  Patrick Ewing

  Kids, Focus, Needs

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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• My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

  Michael Pena

  Years, Tv Shows, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

  Mike Quade

  League, Important, Levels

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• It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Playing Games, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

  Tony Dungy

  Decision, Forget, Life Is

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

  Don Cooper

  Moving, Knows

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• I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

  Damir Dokic

  Queensland, Position, Standing

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• The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Definitions, Enthusiasm, Defeat

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• I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

  Kevin Costner

  Player, Done, Coaches

  "Kevin Costner and Amber Heard Talk 3 DAYS TO KILL, Work/Life Balance, Playing a Seductive Spy Hunter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2014.

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