Coaching Quotes - Page 20

• You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

  Don Nelson

  Mean, Tears, Remember

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Unique, Asking Questions, Leader

  Aubrey Malphurs (2006). “Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design”, p.221, Baker Books

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• Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  People, Want, Helping

  Aubrey Malphurs (2006). “Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design”, p.221, Baker Books

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• Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.

  Bobb Biehl

  Answers, Adequate

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• I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

  Stu Jackson

  Teaching, Games, Competition

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• I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

  Jo Durie

  Missing, Training, Void

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• I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, League

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• My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

  Mark Sanchez

  Home, School, Offensive

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• The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

  Allen Newell

  Sports, Kids, Important

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• The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

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• We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Knowledge, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 04, 2017

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• Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

  Jim Craig

  Dream, Team, Soul

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• Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.

  Chip Kelly

  Jobs, Successful, Player

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

  Lou Holtz

  Blessing, Matter, Mentoring

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• You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

  Andy Stanley

  May, Input, Impossible

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.107, Multnomah

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• A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.

  John McNally

  Strong, Player, Guy

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• I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they're children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Children, People, Understanding

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• When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

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• Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Thinking, Self, People

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• My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

  Don Shula

  Philosophy, Player, Giving

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• No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

  Morgan Wootten

  Sports, Teacher, Children

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