Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play. — Clair Bee
Short Coaches Quotes
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Coaches Image Quotes
Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. — Percy Cerutty
Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. — Herman Edwards
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan. — Jim Harbaugh
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
Coaches And Players Quotes
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
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. — Knute Rockne
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations. — Joe Sakic
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
Every day is important, every act is important. The secret is that the people, players and staff have to believe what you are trying to deliver. — Mikel Arteta
I try to be the best and give the maximum so that people can say I’m among the top players. — Antoine Griezmann
A coach is someone who can give correction without resentment.
If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful. — Chuck Daly
It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see. — Pep Guardiola
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian
We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them. — Les Miles
Head Coaches Quotes
You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd
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. — Les Miles
I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day. — Les Miles
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach — Jon Gruden
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! — Les Miles
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it. — Debbie Ford
Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches. — Steve Spurrier
Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa. — J. C. Watts
Coaches And Athletes Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart. — Vivica Fox
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. — Tom Udall
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. — Emil Zatopek
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain. — Arthur Lydiard
Bad Coaches Quotes
Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it. — Jennie Finch
You have so many games to play, and you can do well in one game but bad in the other ones. The thing you’ve got to be is consistent. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don’t need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad – because I know it. — Paul Pogba
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It’s not bad to stay a little immature. — Kylian Mbappe
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — Bear Bryant
Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper. — Luis J. Rodriguez
Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad. — Darrell Royal
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given. — Lou Holtz
Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things. — Dick Butkus
Assistant Coaches Quotes
We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves. — Kevin Garnett
The most important thing is to be a midfielder first, not scoring goals. You have to make the game, make an assist for the team, and if you can score, it’s a plus for the team. — Paul Pogba
Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you. — Randy Pausch
Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. — Woody Hayes
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game. — Don Shula
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. — Lou Holtz
If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach. — Bob Griese
I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me. — Jonny Wilkinson
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award. — Don Meyer
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years. — Darrell Royal
Coaching Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team. — Tom Landry
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson
Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes. — Kerri Walsh
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. — Pete Carroll
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. — Bo Schembechler
Sports Coach Quotes
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — Casey Stengel
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach
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. — Larry Bird
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. — Herb Brooks
Football Coach Quotes
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp
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. — Bill Belichick
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
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. — Joe Paterno
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths. — Frank Broyles
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Baseball Coach Quotes
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation. — Mike Piazza
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. — Tim Mccarver
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. — Casey Stengel
What's tough is being good every day. — Willie Mays
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. — Leo Durocher
Good Coach Quotes
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people. — Tom Osborne
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
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. — Woody Hayes
I was in the right place at the right time. — Mel Allen
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside. — Bobby Knight
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Soccer Coach Quotes
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them. — Mikel Arteta
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
After an international break you do not know if they are in the frame of mind to come back and do the things necessary to win this league. — Mikel Arteta
Coaching Staff Quotes
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for. — Roy Clark
The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team. — Johnny Majors
I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time. — Joe Paterno
At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me. — Michael Strahan
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization. — Barry Sanders
I've always respected Coach Frank. I kind of publicly recruited him because I really need him and want him. I'm kind of the college recruiter now because he brings a lot to the table. He's had success here and understands the good and the bad, so I'm recruiting him to join my staff. — Jason Kidd
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. — Bruce Jay Friedman
During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game. — Jim Evans
I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up. — Bill Belichick
I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career. — Steve Spurrier
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me. — Terry Fox
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO! — Harry Gordon Selfridge
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less — Bill Walsh
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals. — Tom Landry
You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there. — Mark Rippetoe
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