Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parasheghian
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
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
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired. — Bum Phillips
Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa. — J. C. Watts
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players. — Bill Courtney
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan. — Jim Harbaugh
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry
I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
Football Coach Image Quotes
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
College Football Coach Quotes
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
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game. — Bear Bryant
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.
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any. — Erk Russell
That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words. — Bobby Bowden
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
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age. — Harry Kane
I’ve always wanted to be a footballer, and I’ve always believed that’s the path I was going to go down. — Harry Kane
Football Team Quotes
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
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
That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick
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
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
Sports Coach Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
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
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — 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
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
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
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
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
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
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
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
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
Football Player Quotes
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. — Pele
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad — Franz Beckenbauer
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Baseball Coach Quotes
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
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
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
Football Leadership Quotes
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back. — Bear Bryant
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clark
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clarke
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. — Dee Dee Myers
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency. — Junior Seau
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows. — Bud Grant
Coaches Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Football Season Quotes
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. — LeBron James
Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. — Bobby Robson
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake. — John Facenda
I've been consistent in patches this season. — Theo Walcott
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday. — Graham Taylor
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows. — Bennett Cerf
I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. — Terry Bradshaw
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
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
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths. — Frank Broyles
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled. — Al Davis
You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either — Gene Stallings
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become. — Frosty Westering
Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13. — Antoine Griezmann
Energy is everything, in life, in football and in sports. — Mikel Arteta
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope. — Brendan Rodgers
I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end. — Sayings
I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power. — Jim Harbaugh
The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. — Bear Bryant
In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities. — Kylian Mbappe
For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society. — Kylian Mbappe
I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training – I’m always guided by that desire to conquer, to win. — Kylian Mbappe
You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip. — Bud Wilkinson
Football goes fast but it can go quickly in both directions. — Kylian Mbappe
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. — Roy Keane
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