Coaching Quotes - Page 4

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  Bear Bryant

  Believe, School, Kids

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

  John Wooden

  Life, Positive, Basketball

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Player, Games

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Victory, Defeat

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.

  John P. Kotter

  Moving, Fall, Games

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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• All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

  Bill McCartney

  Teamwork, Player, Gamer

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• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

  John Madden

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Leadership

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

  Phil Crosby

  Sports, Jobs, Persons

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• What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Inspire, Levels

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

  Leonard Sweet

  Life, God, Christian

  Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Motivational Sports, Seems

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.82, Workman Publishing

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• You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

  Tommy Prothro

  Football, Gratitude, Cutting

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