Coaching Quotes · Page 36

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another…

— James A. Belasco

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

— Phil Jackson

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

— Brad Stevens

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and…

— Warren Gatland

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

— James Milner

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

— John Wooden

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively…

— Andy Stanley

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a…

— LaVell Edwards

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

— John Wooden

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach,…

— Lord Byron

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change.…

— Tom Glavine

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got…

— Bear Bryant

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

— Jimmy Johnson

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

— Don Meyer

Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA…

— Klay Thompson

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's…

— Michael Cooper

I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me…

— LaVell Edwards

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

— John Wooden

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

— John Brady

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that…

— Joe Montana

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the…

— Andy Stanley

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

— Pete Carril

The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by…

— Aubrey Malphurs

The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for…

— Drew Gooden