Coaching Quotes · Page 24

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

— John Eldredge

My teammates and the coaching team know that they can count on me.

— Casemiro

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

— Billy Donovan

“Reality is based mainly on knowledge, what you do not know doesn't exit for you.”

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

— Bum Phillips

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

— Rick Pitino

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

— Pat Riley

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

— Scotty Bowman

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

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about…

— Fred Shero

“Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known…

— Epiphana Lewis

Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the…

— Anonymous

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

— Jeff Van Gundy

Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with…

— Bo Schembechler

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games…

— Rick Pitino

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that…

— Sid Gillman

We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an…

— Ralph Miller

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was…

— Jim Leyland

I can't coach, but it's ok, it's my players fault, they're just not producing. I can't get on the court for them,…

— John Swickrath

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team.…

— Tom Landry

A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is…

— Marshall Cook

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.…

— Bear Bryant

A big part of my job is coaching and developing. I've hired the right team. But everyone has areas where we need…

— Shellye Archambeau

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I…

— Don Nelson

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

— Dick Bennett

I play in dreams. I don't ever have coaching dreams. But I have football dreams, still.

— Jim Harbaugh

“Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)”

— Robert A. Schuller

Coaching is not something I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about coaching kids

— David Beckham

Coaching is really a big fraternity. You can get in if you know the right people.

— Matt LaFleur

In terms of the coaching aspect and things like that, I've always been someone that prides themselves in helping young talent.

— Shawn Spears

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

— Ruud Gullit

“Experienced managers interview to "Qualify"... inexperienced managers interview to "Disqualify.”

— Mark W Boyer

“You must be personally reliable before you can coach your team to generate reliable results.”

— Lee Colan

Coaching in England was a positive experience but also many negative things happened.

— Andre Villas-Boas

“People need to feel seen, heard, and valued to have the desire to grow.”

— Marcia Reynolds

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

— Darrell Royal

I think coaching Steve Nash is easy no matter if it's a good or bad start.

— Mike D'Antoni

“If the issues of life push at you push back with such force that they fall off the universe.”

— Phumi Ngwane

But when you have a coaching staff that draws the last play for you, you better go out there with the confidence.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they here.

— Red Auerbach