Coaching Quotes · Page 22

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

— Don Meyer

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

— Ottmar Hitzfeld

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

— John Wooden

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

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

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Leadership is a team sport - learning to work with others is a critical skill. This means articulating a clear vision, setting…

— Robert S. Kaplan

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

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

— Kurt Warner

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

— Joe Sakic

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No,…

— Edward Carpenter

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

— Martha Beck

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

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

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

— John Madden

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

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

— Atul Gawande

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

— Mookie Wilson

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

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

— Yuri Boganov

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Steve Young

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

— Tony Adams

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

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

— Chuck Daly

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

— Paul Gascoigne

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— LaVar Ball

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

— Satchel Paige

Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.

— Herm Edwards

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

— Vince Lombardi

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

— Adolph Rupp

I've always kind of stayed free of coaching because I really want to stay out of coaches' way so they can do…

— Joe Maddon

“What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?”

— Rossana Condoleo