Coaching Quotes · Page 17

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

— Knute Rockne

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

— Anonymous

Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

— John Wooden

Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It's not the norm in Italy.

— Roberto Baggio

Coaching - teaching the game - came relatively easy. I connected extremely well with the players.

— Dawn Staley

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

— Rick Pitino

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

— Dorothea Brandt

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

— Kelvin Sampson

I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do…

— Dan Gable

I do a lot of coaching with my friends on how to get out of relationships with their agents, boyfriends, contractors, whatever,…

— June Diane Raphael

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They…

— Bobby Knight

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away.…

— Stephon Marbury

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where…

— Elaine MacDonald

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises,…

— Cobi Jones

“Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate…

— Farshad Asl

When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the…

— John Elway

The frustrating paradox is that coaching goalkeeping actually requires more resources than outfield positions. Unlike David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, who can…

— David James

I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says,…

— Tony Gwynn

“Coaching is the only thing where the more someone else practices, the better you get. That’s my kind of hard work. People…

— Jarod Kintz

I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a…

— Metta World Peace

One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how…

— Anson Dorrance

We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on…

— Jim Calhoun

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more…

— Lou Holtz

“Life is a journey where we don't want to arrive at our final destination too soon, unfortunately many of us live from…

— Darren Housley

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

— Daniel Cormier

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

— Rick Majerus

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

— Tommy Prothro

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

— Al McGuire

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”

— idowu koyenikan

When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

— Jason Witten

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

— Amos Alonzo Stagg

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

— Brendon Burchard

“To me they were all equal, and without people a business was just a building.”

— Mark Bradford

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

— Dean Smith

Of course you want to coach in the Bundesliga when you move into coaching.

— Miroslav Klose

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

— Pat Summitt

The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

— Paul Westhead

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

— Bobby Knight

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

— John Wooden