Coaching Quotes · Page 29

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

— Don Meyer

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

— Tony Adams

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

— Albert Schweitzer

I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level.

— Shahid Afridi

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

— Ric Charlesworth

“A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Terry Bowden

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

— Anonymous

“Millennials don't want to be managed, they like to be led, coached and mentored. This generation is on fire and ready to…

— Farshad Asl

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions…

— Bobby Knight

It's not that we're better coaching; we are just executing better. When you add the right wrinkles and kids play better, it…

— Jay Paterno

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young…

— Clair Bee

The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of…

— LeBron James

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and…

— Warren Gatland

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be…

— John Wooden

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence…

— Mickey Arthur

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

— Don Shula

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

— Michael Owen

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

— Phumi Ngwane

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Chris Lytle

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

— Vince Lombardi

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

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

— Aubrey Malphurs

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

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Mack Brown

I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire…

— Archie Manning

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

— John Wooden

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

— Jim Valvano

“Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!”

— Rossana Condoleo

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

— James A. Belasco

Football coaching and the management profession is being ripped apart by owners and chief executives.

— Tony Adams

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

— George Allen

Can't blame the coaching staff for everything. It's mutual, of course. Players mess up, coaches mess up.

— Kyle Kuzma

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

— Phil Jackson

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

— Marv Albert

“Your inner voice is the most powerful coach you will ever have.”

— Toni Sorenson

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

— Steve Waugh