Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. — John Madden
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
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players. — Bill Courtney
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to. — Woody Hayes
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
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
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
Short Head Coaches Quotes
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parasheghian
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice. — Bill Walsh
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious. — Al McGuire
You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you — Lawrence Frank
Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean that you aren't headed for sunshine.
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
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
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
Why I Coach Quotes
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 must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people. — Haile Gebrselassie
I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' — Walt Garrison
Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. — Madonna Ciccone
As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership. — Warren Gatland
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
Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.
Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world. — John Wooden
I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism. — Frank DeFord
I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be. — Christopher Allsopp
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given. — Mookie Wilson
Coaching Staff Quotes
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
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
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
Dont fill you head with worries, there wont be room for anything else
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
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 went away in my head, into a book.
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
Coaches 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
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!
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
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
Balance, never let success go to your head, and never let failure go to your heart.
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
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
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
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
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
Sometimes the thing that is holding you back is all in your head.
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
Football Coach Quotes
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
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
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
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
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
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
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
Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you — Bill Walsh
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach. — Don Shula
To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction. — Jerry West
Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.' — Chip Kelly
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
I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right. — Al Davis
I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in. — Chic Murray
I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame. — Dan Devine
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity. — Lou Holtz
It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships. — Will Muschamp
You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching. — Morgan Wootten
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on. — Mike Krzyzewski
Right or wrong, when a team is doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the praise and when a team's not doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the blame. I've learned to drown that out. — Scott Frost
To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system. — Robert Kraft
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman
Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here. — Gus Malzahn
I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach. — Pete Carroll
I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready. — Alexander Gustafsson
The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins. — George Preston Marshall
My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there. — Phil Jackson
I feel like there should be more black head coaches. — Lynn Swann
We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach. — Ron Jaworski
I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you want a team that really wants you; head coach, GM, owner, everybody that really wants you in their place and the players believe in you. I'm looking forward to making somebody fall in love with me. — Robert Griffin III
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach? — Chuck Pagano
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. — Don Meyer
I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated. — Monte Lipman
Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach — Tommy Amaker
Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad. — Fred Williams
Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility. — Bear Bryant
The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders. — Peyton Manning
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. — Adam Oates
Before Keto could notice, Hedge pointed towards the top of the amphitheater. It looked like he might be screaming, Gods of Olympus, what is that? Keto turned. Coach Hedge promptly took off his fake foot and ninja-kicked her in the back of the head with his goat hoof. — Rick Riordan
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong. — Patrick Ewing
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