Coaching Quotes · Page 22

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt

— Paul-Emile Victor

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

— Steve Young

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

— Don Meyer

“Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.”

— Yuri Boganov

I guess I'm going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn't be coaching.

— Charles Oakley

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

— Lord Byron

“Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.”

— Rossana Condoleo

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about…

— Tyronn Lue

“Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing.”

— Tony Dovale - ReThink Your Success Mindset tonydovalespeaks.com

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between…

— Joe Sakic

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack…

— Kurt Warner

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at…

— Bear Bryant

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and…

— Lou Holtz

I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back…

— Mike Krzyzewski

There is no manual for this job. There's no how-to for coaching football. There hasn't been and never will be. The bottom…

— Mike Tomlin

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's…

— Bobby Knight

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients.…

— Martha Beck

The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know…

— Franz Stampfl

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for…

— John Madden

I'd lost the joy of coaching. There were times after a win when I was shouting at my assistants leaving the field…

— Mack Brown

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we…

— Steve Spurrier

My dad had a spell when he came out of coaching doing some work with underprivileged children on quite a rough council…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets…

— Mookie Wilson

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction…

— Atul Gawande

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— John Wooden

My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

— Ottmar Hitzfeld

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

— Chuck Daly

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

— Don Meyer

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

— Don Meyer

Back in the day I said in an interview coaching wasn't Arsene's strong point.

— Tony Adams

How would I coach LeBron and Lonzo? Guess what, less coaching is the best coaching. Let them do what they do.

— LaVar Ball

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

— Paul Gascoigne

When I first got into coaching, I just wanted to make it to the Mid-American Conference someday.

— Matt LaFleur

And some of the best coaching you can do is not telling kids something.

— Ryan Day

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

— Casey Stengel

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have…

— Phil Neville

I think there's a competitive side that we enjoy relative to coaching.

— Sean Payton

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

— Bear Bryant