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
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
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
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 Great Coach Quotes
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired. — Bum Phillips
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo
He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger. — Jurgen Klopp
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching. — John Whitmore
Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world. — Jurgen Klopp
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Coach Quotes
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
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
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people. — Tom Osborne
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
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
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
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
Great Teacher Quotes
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. — Sonia Sotomayor
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. — B. F. Skinner
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give. — Maya Angelou
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
Coaching 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
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
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
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
Inspirational Football Coach Quotes
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
To a great mind, nothing is little.
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
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
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
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
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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
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
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
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
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
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
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. — Herb Brooks
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
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
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
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
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
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
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 — Anson Dorrance
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don’t. It’s more about personality. — KSI
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
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
The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next. — Harold Wilson
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
I try to be the best and give the maximum so that people can say I’m among the top players. — Antoine Griezmann
People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don’t have the big results. — Isaac Mashman
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. — George Allen
The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool. — Dennis Hastert
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
I have a lot of self-belief, and I think it will happen. I think I will just get better and better. It’s what great players do; they don’t let up on anything. And I wouldn’t do that anyway. — Harry Kane
I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom. — Mike Candrea
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting. — Chris Voss
The timeless challenge in the real world is to help less-talented people transcend their limitations. — Michael Abrashoff
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
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano
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