Athlete Quote by Mark Rippetoe Download Open image “Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.” — Mark Rippetoe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Bad ass Best coaches Coaches Hell Mediocre Motivational workout Workout
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… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school. — Sean McVay Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players. — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become. — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect. — Gordie Gillespie Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there. — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it. — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates. — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were. — Jerry West Copy Share Image
“Every barbell exercise that involves the feet on the floor and a barbell supported by the body will be in its best balance, both… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“myofibrillar hypertrophy, more actin, myosin, and other associated proteins are added to those already existing in the cell. More contractile elements within the cell… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do. — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery. — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“If you insist on using a thumbless grip on the bench, you need to do it at home so that when the ambulance comes… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The hang clean is unweighted and is of little use to watch, except that it shows a problem known as a Donkey Kick. As… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
