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
El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly. — Antoine Griezmann
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Short Good Coach Quotes
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching. — John Whitmore
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. — John Madden
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. — Dean Smith
My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn. — Michael Jordan
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper. — Monty Roberts
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired. — Bum Phillips
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Being A Good Coach Quotes
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
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. — Michael Gartner
I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus. — Geno Auriemma
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder. — Pete Carril
People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good. — Mike Krzyzewski
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years. — Sayings
The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach — Franz Stampfl
Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat! — Mark Rippetoe
I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach. — Calvin Harris
Inspiring Good Coach Quotes
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. — Don Meyer
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. — John Brady
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
I do not feel like I am on par with Messi and Ronaldo yet. I need to win trophies to match them. I try to help my team and country as good as possible to do just that. — Antoine Griezmann
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. — John Wooden
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good. — Paul Westphal
Having A Good Coach Quotes
It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays. — Rick Pitino
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
This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine. — Bela Karolyi
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
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
Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on. — Justin Hawkins
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. — Chuck Knox
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor. — Chuck Knox
It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa. — Guy Forget
But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. — Bear Bryant
Good Job Coach Quotes
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
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
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers. — Bobby Knight
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice. — Phil Jackson
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good. — Gordon Strachan
Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings. — Marc Crawford
Great Coach 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
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
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
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
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day. — Les Miles
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
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
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
Coaching Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
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
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
Sports Coach Quotes
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
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
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 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
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
Bad Coaches Quotes
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
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
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
No trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you’re not going to do the work, if you’re waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It’s on you. And that’s why I’m telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself. — Tim Grover
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people. — Tom Osborne
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
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
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. — Boris Spassky
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time. — Phil Esposito
Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else. — Dean Smith
Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience. — Johnnie Johnson
I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice. — Kawhi Leonard
It’s always good to play with big players, you know. — Paul Pogba
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit. — Andy Stanley
Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. — Chuck Noll
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else. — Tex Winter
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
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 on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself. — LaVell Edwards
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