Coaching Quotes · Page 30

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire.…

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the…

— Red Auerbach

It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.

— Erik Spoelstra

Coaching is not hard.

— LaVar Ball

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

— Satchel Paige

Practice structure determines success.

— Bobby Knight

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

— Dean Smith

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

— Jack Welch

Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a…

— Tex Winter

I like coaching a lot.

— Ben Askren

Put the Team Before Yourself.

— Pat Summitt

I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell…

— Urban Meyer

“You have everything you need inside of you to create anything in your life that you desire.”

— Mike Basevic

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

— Philip Yancey

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you…

— Bear Bryant

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

— Yogi Berra

I think it's part of coaching. We're always kind of in a little bit of flux.

— Sean Payton

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

— Andy Stanley

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

— Don Meyer

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in…

— Bear Bryant

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

— Pat Summitt

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I…

— Doc Rivers

I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.

— Gabriel Batistuta