Coaching Quotes - Page 18

• Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Believe

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• Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Excellence, Trying

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• Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

  Peter Burwash

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Peter Burwash (2007). “The Key to Great Leadership: Rediscovering the Principles of Outstanding Service”, p.140, Torchlight Publishing

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• Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Passion, Heart, Winning

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• Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Leader

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• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Work, People, Bent

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• You are your choices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Details, Mentoring

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• Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Perfection

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• The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Belief, Consciousness, Barriers

  "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.

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• One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Listening, Transformation

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• Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Persons, Seekers, Values

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• Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

  Dalai Lama

  Lessons, Forget

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• The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ears, Way, Life Is

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• We cannot transform what we refuse to engage

  Elizabeth Kucinich

  Refuse

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• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Method, Valuable

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• It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

  Delbert McClinton

  Inspirational, Sports, Motivational Sports

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• I never drop a player I only make changes.

  Bill Shankly

  Sports, Player, Making Changes

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• I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Sports, Money

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• If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

  Indra Nooyi

  Husband, Boss, Mentor

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• It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to the table. Character on a team is important, but you've got to have the horses to win.

  Mookie Wilson

  Horse, Team, Character

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• We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

  Bobby Knight

  Integrity, School, Kentucky

  "Knight chides Calipari in Indiana speech". www.espn.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

  Chuck Daly

  Jobs, Airplane, Land

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• I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

  Chris Lytle

  Asking Questions, Discovery, Voyages

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• As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

  Cobi Jones

  Exercise, Player, Careers

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