Good Coaches Quotes - Page 2

• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

  Cain Velasquez

  Wrestling, Successful, Mma

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• Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  Mark Rippetoe

  Training, Ceilings, Bars

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• My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going
  to be a good coach.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Believe, Why Not, Best Coaches

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• The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

  George E. P. Box

  Team, Order, Ideas

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• We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

  Joe Dumars

  Smart, Player, Three

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• It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

  Michael Gartner

  Demand, Economy, Great Coach

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Chess

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• A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, People, Risk

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• Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

  John Wooden

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

  George Halas

  Basketball, Football, Commitment

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• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  Don Coryell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

  Bum Phillips

  Football, Nfl, People

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• I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Coaching, Marketing, Economy

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  Carl Lewis

  School, Thinking, Needs

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• Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Courage, Dictator

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• I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

  Daley Thompson

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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