Coaching Quotes · Page 25

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

— Don Meyer

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to…

— Pat Riley

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

— Jon Gruden

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

— Red Auerbach

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

— John Wooden

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

— Woody Hayes

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...

— Charles R. Swindoll

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

— Vince Lombardi

I don't see myself coaching because the intensity of that is massive, and the intensity as a manager, for example Arsene Wenger,…

— Per Mertesacker

Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you…

— Ray Lewis

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to…

— Tom Heinsohn

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

— LaVell Edwards

There's not one year to the next that you don't go through a number of changes, whether it's personnel, whether it's coaching,…

— Jason McCourty

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and…

— John Madden

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what…

— Tommy Lasorda

“The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through…

— Bobby Bowden

This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you…

— Frank Vogel

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

I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never…

— Tony Dungy

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because…

— Karch Kiraly

Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many…

— Julio Olalla

I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then…

— Steven C. Harper

There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and…

— Chan Gailey

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

— Rick Majerus

Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.

— John Wooden

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies…

— Tommy Lasorda

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

— Bobby Knight

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

— Vince Lombardi

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

— Chris Lytle

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

— Paulo Coelho

“Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?”

— Phumi Ngwane

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

— Michael Owen

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

— Don Shula

I want to go back to North Carolina to do what I started to do in coaching, Not what it got to…

— Mack Brown

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

— Don Meyer

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.

— Aubrey Malphurs

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to…

— Bo Ryan

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

— Terry Bowden