Coaching Quotes · Page 17

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

— Don Meyer

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

— Patrick Ewing

“Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.”

— Peter Richmond

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

— John Wooden

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

— Vince Lombardi

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

— Vince Lombardi

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

— Michael Wilbon

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their…

— Richard Leider

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep…

— Saint Augustine

“Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

— John Whitmore

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

— Pat Riley

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

— Andy Stanley

“You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

— Jennifer Hyman

“CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a…

— Geno Auriemma

No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your…

— Hubie Brown

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

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the…

— Lane Kiffin

Life coaching, the mental and physical well-being of footballers, is going to be really important. I don't mean necessarily in a deep…

— Sean Dyche

I'm so blessed to have gone to Wisconsin. It's a great school and great coaching staff with incredible fans. I had a…

— Russell Wilson

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend,…

— John Wooden

“In life, we are all on the same journey, we are all struggling to get from point A to point B. Different…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

— Pat Riley

“The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.”

— Kim H. Krisco

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

I'm always excited when it comes to coaching football, mentoring guys and them becoming better people.

— Brian Flores

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

— Lou Holtz

Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.

— Warren Gatland

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

— Don Meyer

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

— Chuck Noll

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

— Dan Pena

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

— Harry Sinden

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

— Bobby Knight

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

— Rick Pitino

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

— John Calipari

I love the job and I can't imagine doing anything other than coaching.

— Hansi Flick

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

— John Wooden

I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

— Vince Lombardi