Coaching Quotes - Page 15

• I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

  Phil Jackson

  Thinking, Done, Coaches

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• We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.

  Les Miles

  Team, School, Player

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• Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

  Marv Albert

  Funny, Eight, Years

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• Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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• We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Practice, Car

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage

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• Coaching has been my entire life.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Has Beens

  "Hall of Fame UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian dies aged 84", www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.

  Jonas Hiller

  Giving Up, Night, Talking

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• In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

  Vince Lombardi

  Successful, Years, Play

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.

  Pete Lembo

  Team, Years, Trying

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Player, Years, Games

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• Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

  Pete Carroll

  Nfl, Support, Needs

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• To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Nfl, Building, Reaching

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• He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• Coaching is a powerful relationship for people who are making important changes in their lives.

  Laura Whitworth

  Powerful, People, Important

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• Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

  Ray Lewis

  Passionate

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

  Morgan Wootten

  Team, Successful, Leader

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• A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

  James A. Belasco

  Moving, Journey, Fire

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  I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

  Peyton Manning

  Love Is, Thinking, Asking Questions

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• Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.

  Bob Harper

  Exercise, Crossfit, Guidance

  "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

  Bud Grant

  Player, Listening, Criticism

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• Coaching staff: I know there's days you look at that film and you want to kill me. I'm not playing defense, taking bad shots, getting too many techs. But you always believe that I can be the guy. Through the tough times, you guys never left my side... That's something that I really appreciate and I never want to take you guys for granted. I thank you so much for being part of my life. And not just on the basketball court, but giving me talks about growing as a man first, and a basketball player next.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Heart, Years

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

  Vince Lombardi

  Loss, Winning, Winner

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• You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.

  John Starks

  Player, Games, Assistants

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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