Coaching Quotes - Page 17

• Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.

  Johnnie Johnson

  Men, Hands, Practice

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• I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. Coach Gregg Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach Don Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself.

  Avery Johnson

  College, Men, Thinking

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.

  Nigel Short

  Hard Work, Degrees, Doe

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• I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

  Johan Bruyneel

  Soccer, Daughter, Jobs

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  Pat Williams

  Basketball, Nba, Nervous

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• It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

  Jens Lehmann

  Careers, Decision, Insulting

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• I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.

  Steve Spurrier

  Jobs, Careers, Hobbies

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• We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Kids, Winning

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• It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.

  Luke Mitchell

  Acting, Lines, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• This is the first time since I've been coaching that I gave them off on Christmas Day. Sometimes when you lose a game you want to get right back at it. But in reality I thank God we had an opportunity for our guys to be home with their families on Christmas.

  Louis Orr

  Home, Opportunity, Reality

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• Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

  Dabo Swinney

  Study

  Source: beachcarolina.com

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• I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

  Jon Gruden

  Brother, Thinking, Champion

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• I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

  Bill Cowher

  Hard Work, Challenges, Next

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• My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.

  Joe Maddon

  Baseball, Perspective, People

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• Playing well and winning the Super Bowl helped my credibility. Otherwise, when Id give an opinion, people would say, What has he done? If I didnt win that Super Bowl, Id probably be coaching somewhere. TV would not be an option for me. So, (winning the Super Bowl) does help.

  Phil Simms

  Winning, People, Giving

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• It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

  Joe Maddon

  Thinking, Grandparent, Fans

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Player, Air

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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• People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

  Brendon Burchard

  Long, People, Track

  "Motivation: 3 Themes for 2013" by Brendon Burchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.

  Lou Campanelli

  Basketball, Practice, Play

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• The [best] coaches... know that the job is to win... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don't have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn't hired to do anything but win.

  Bill Walsh

  Loyalty, Strong, Jobs

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• Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

  John Wooden

  Simple, Keep It Simple

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• There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

  Robert Monroe

  Ends

  Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony

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• The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Boards, Tools

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• The team with the most talent usually wins.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• A man is always better than he thinks.

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Thinking

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