Coach Quotes

818 Coach quotes by 554 unique authors

For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense. — Sterling Sharpe
You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose… — Lou Holtz
But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted… — Parminder Nagra
After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season.… — LaVell Edwards
No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball… — John Kessel
Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning… — John Kessel
A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of… — Bill Bradley
I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based… — LaVell Edwards
If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to… — James A. Murphy III
One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for… — Willie Mays
You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them. — John Kessel
No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred… — John Wooden
A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't… — Dick Motta
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin. — Pee Wee Reese
I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.' — Vince Lombardi
A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes. — John Kessel
I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the… — John Kessel
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea,… — Amos Alonzo Stagg
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win. — John Kessel
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control. — John Kessel
My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure… — Karch Kiraly
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look… — Theodore Hesburgh
The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where… — Timothy Gallwey
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference. — Adolph Rupp
A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be. — Leeman Bennett

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