Coached Quotes Page 2

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that.

It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win.

It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance.

It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.

As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.

To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

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

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The most important thing in coaching is communication.

It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone.

I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field.

By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.